PARTIES TO DISPUTE: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks,
 Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes

STATEMENT CF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of ttailway
 and Steamship Clerk's, Freight Handlers, Express and Station
 Employes that:

 1. Carrier violated agreement dated June 1, 1954 when on April 27, 1956 they blanked one day of regular relief position No. 11,

 2, Carrier shall pay Claimant Eugene W. Baird who was available and on the extra board a days pay at Wringermants rate."

 FINDINGS: The Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

 The Carrier or Carriers and the Employee or Employees involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and EYnployee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934.

 The Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein. The parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

 It is only for the trial period, June 7 to September 15, 1954, that the Agreement of June 1, 1954, barred the Carrier from reducing the Ogden Laundry work force below the level of 108 five day week positions. Accordingly, no obligation was imposed on the Carrier by said instrument on any day subsequent to September 15, 1954, to maintain said number of five day positions on a seven day basis,





                            /~ Harold M. Gilden

                            Chairman


                            /s/ A. J, VanDeroreek

                            Carrier Member


                            /s/ C. F. Bignall

                            Organization Member


Omaha, Nebraska February 24, 1959