PARTIES ) Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks,
 TO ) Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees
 DISPUTE ) and
 Great Northern Railway Company
 QUESTIONS (1) Did the Carrier violate the provisions of the February
 AT ISSUE: 7, 1965 Agreement, particularly Articles I and IV, when it
 refused, and continuously refuses, to compensate Melvin V.
 Eckholm, Assistant File Clerk, Minneapolis Superintendent's
 office, commencing September 2, 1968, and each work day
 thereafter, for the difference between his guaranteed
 Assistant Chief Clerk's rate of $28.62 per day, and the
 Assistant File Clerk's rate of $27.45 per day, plus subse
 quent general wage increases?
 (2) Shall the Carrier now be required to compensate Melvin
 V. Eckholm for the difference in his protected rate and his
 present rate, plus subsequent rate adjustments, commencing
 September 2, 1968, and each work day of his work week there
 after?

 OPINION The instant dispute arose out of the identical facts contained
 OF BOARD: in Case No. CL-73-W, Award No. 208, decided by us this same
 date. However, the Claimant herein was displaced by Miss Olson,
 who was displaced by Mrs. Murphy when her job was abolished by
 the Carrier.
 In view of our analysis in Award No. 208, we are adhering to
 the conclusions contained therein.

            The answer to Questions (1) and (2) is in the affirmative.


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 Dated: Washington, D. C ~1////.

      April 20, 1970