NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
Third Division
DISPUTE.-" Claim of senior cut-off employes in Group 2 of Salida, Colo., Master Mechanic's seniority district, for one day's pay, December 1st, 1934, and each date thereafter, account other than employes coming under the Clerk's Agreement performing duties of former second-trick enghie-dispatcher position."
FINDINGS.-The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:
The carrier and the employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes ivitbin the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved Julie 21, 1934.
This division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.
The parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.The following statement of facts is jointly certified by the parties, and the Third Division so finds:
" Effective Dec. 1, 1934, the position of second-trick engine dispatcher, with assignment 4 P. M. to 12 M. at the Salida engine house, was abolished, and the work of calling engine and train crews during the period 7 A. M. to 1 P. M. was thereafter performed by engine-house foremen, mechanical employes, and yard-office clerks.
An agreement bearing effective date of February 1, 1920, exists between tile parties, and claim is based upon the "Scope" and "Seniority" rules thereof.
In the mouth of February 1936 there were fourteen (14) days on which no crews were called between 7: 00 A. M. and 1:00 P. M., and during the entire month a total of only twenty-three (23) hours and fifteen (15) minutes were spent in calling engine and train crews.