PARTIES) The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

TO )

DISPUTE) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM :

1. Carrier violated the Scope and other rules of the prevailing Agreement between the parties hereto when and because it refused to fill the position of Agent at Paragould, Arkansas, with an employee from the Telegraphers' seniority roster during the period from July 4, 1955 to July 25, 1955 (three weeks), while the regular Agent was absent from his station on vacation, and instead required an employee not covered by the Telegraphers' Agreement and having no rights thereunder to take over and assume the duties of Agent at this station during the said period of time.

2. In consequence of its action in thus violating the Agreement, Carrier shall be required to make redress in the form of a day's pay at the Paragould agency rate of pay ($460.21 per month) for each day involved in the period, July 4-25, 1955, to the senior employe on the Telegraphers' roster not working on each day such violative arrangement was in effect,

FINDINGS : The above claim was withdrawn by the Organization.

AWARD : Claim dismissed.


                      Frank P. Douglass, Chairman


/s/ 0. C. Jones /s/ L. C. Albert
0. C. Jones, Employee Member L. C. Albert, Carrier Member

Tyler, Texas December 14, 1956.

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