(a) That cleaning freight cars is work properly recognized as part of the duties of car yard laborers.
(b) That cleaning tank cars falls within the category of freight car cleaning.
(c) That shop laborers be assigned to clean tank cars at the Peoria Roundhouse.
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: Tank cars are being brought into this carrier's roundhouse at Peoria for the purpose of being thoroughly cleaned before placed in service to transport alcohol from the distilleries.
Employes other than laborers, not covered by the scope of the controlling agreement, are assigned to clean these tank cars when brought into the roundhouse.
This class of work was considerably increased after the nation entered the present war.
The scope of the controlling agreement includes "Car Yard Laborers," "Roundhouse Laborers" and "Engine Washers."
POSITION OF EMPLOYES: Cleaning all classes of freight cars is work of car yard laborers.
In conference with the employes' representatives, the management stated it would have assigned car yard laborers to this work in question had the work been performed within the car department. However, since the work was taken to the roundhouse, it felt fully justified in assigning it to classes of employ es other than those covered by the controlling agreement.
Such a position on the part of the management, the employes feel, is inconsistent indeed because the car yard laborers and roundhouse laborers of this carrier enjoy common and interweaving seniority rights and if the work in question is car yard laborers' work wheij performed in the car yard, then certainly it should be, to say the least, round house laborers' work when performed in the roundhouse.
To adhere to a technical and rigid application of the intent and purpose of the controlling agreement, we think that car yard laborers should be per-