PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM:











OPINION OF BOARD: This Board finds the reasoning and findings set forth in
Award 25712 are applicable to the facts of this dispute. For these reasons, we affirm that this Claim was not handled in the usual manner as provided in the controlling Agreement and, accordingly, did not comply with Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act or Circular No. 1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the
parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon
the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934;

That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and





        Claim dismissed.

                      Award Number 25788 Page 2

                      Docket Number MS-25615


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


      Attest: ancy J. v - Executive Secretary


      Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of November 1985.