requiring them to report at a specific time or date inasmuch as they appeared at the district office for their pay checks and linen locker keys at various times and dates. Conductor Stevenson called for his key and pay check at 1:30 P. M., February 12. Conductor Schultz, whose claim was also considered in the hearing of April 6, came to the office at 12:10 P. M., February 11. Conductor Dawson called at the office at 1 P. M., February 10.

Rule 12. Payment for Hours Credited, cited by the Organization in this dispute, provides that all hours credited to a conductor shall be paid for in accordance with the rules covering "Basis of Payment". In citing this Rule, the Organization apparently is attempting to convey the impression that Stevenson has not been paid for all hours credited to him. Inasmuch as Conductor Stevenson was not entitled to be credited with 7:30 hours' station duty for the trip to the district office on February 12 to equip himself with a linen locker key, the Organization cannot show that there has been any violation of Rule 12 in this dispute.

Rule 22. Extra Service of the Agreement provides that conductors shall be paid at their respective established hourly rates for all hours credited each month for extra road service, deadhead on cars, deadhead on passes, extended special tours, station duty, witness duty, held-for-service, called and not used and all other non-road service. Undoubtedly the Organization injected this Rule into the dispute because of the reference contained therein to payment for station duty. The Organization, however, has offered nothing persuasive of the fact that Stevenson performed station duty on February 12, 1948. On the other hand. Management has shown that on the date in question, Stevenson called at the district office for necessary equipment, for which call he was not entitled to station duty credit and pay.

Neither Rule 10 (f) nor Rules 12 and 22 of the working Agreement provide for station duty pay under circumstances such as those involved in this case. If it had been the intent of the parties to compensate conductors for calls to the district office to obtain items of equipment, that fact would have been specifically stated in Rule 10. Since the Organization was well aware of the Company's practice of not paying conductors for calls to the district office to obtain such items, the absence of any provisions for co:hpensation for such calls constitutes an acceptance by the Organization of the practice. In view of the specific language of Rule 10 (f), which states the conditions under which conductors shall be compensated, none of which conditions is involved in this dispute, the Company maintains that the claim is without merit and should be denied.

(Exhibits not reproduced.)

OPINION OF BOARD: The record discloses that Claimant, a regularly assigned Conductor, did, on February 12, 1948, pursuant to request of the Company by bulletin dated February b, 1948, call at the Company's district office in San Francisco for the purpose of-obtaining his pay draft for the second half of January, 1948 obtaining a new linen locker key, and signing the master record ackowledging receipt thereof. It appears the Company had changed the locks on all linen lockers in Pullmans owned and/or operated by it, or would do so in the near future, and because thereof it became necessary for all Conductors to have new keys.

On these facts Claimant claims seven and one-half hours station duty under Rule 10 (b), based on the assertion that he was required to report at the Company's San Francisco district office to receive special instructions as

Rule 10 (f), so far as here material, provides:

"Conductors who are required to leave their place of residence * * * and report to a Company representative for interview, special instructions, uniform inspection, or to make statements in connection with service matters shall be compensated in accordance with paragraphs * * * (b) of this rule."

In determining the rights of the parties it is our duty to interpret the applicable rules of the parties' Agreement as they are written. It is not our privilege or right to add thereto, and when a rule specifically lists the situations to which applicable it thereby excludes all those not included therein.

Rule 10 (f) applies only when a Conductor is required to leave his place of residence and report to a Company representative for one or more of the purposes therein expressly set forth, which are: for interview, special instructions, uniform inspection, or to make statements in connection with service matters.

The facts do not bring this Claimant within any of the situations to which Rule 10 (f) is applicable, as Claimant received no special instructions when he called at the San Francisco district office on February 12 1948, nor was the giving of any special instructions contemplated by the bulletin. In view thereof we find the claim to be without merit and that it should be denied.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

That the Company did not violate the Agreement.

AWARD