NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

(Supplemental)




PARTIES TO DISPUTE:




STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, that:




1. (a) On November 16, 1959 it required or permitted Agent G. C. Lang at Mobile, Alabama to transmit and receive messages.


(b) Carrier shall compensate Telegrapher W. L. Adams in the amount of a day's pay.


2. (a) On November 24, 1959 it required or permitted clerks at Artesia, Mississippi and Okolona to transmit and receive messages.


(b) Carrier shall compensate Telegrapher J. A. Pilkinton in the amount of a day's pay.




EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: The Agreements between the parties are available to your Board and are, by this reference, made a part hereof.


The cases listed above in the Statement of Claim are violations of the Scope Rule of the Agreement and are what may be generally termed communication violations other than train orders. Rules, in addition to the Scope Rule, come into play to confirm the violations and to determine the amount of reparation due because of the breach of contract; however, the Scope Rule is the controlling rule and reads as follows:



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The claims as presented herein are totally without merit and should be denied.

    (Exhibits not reproduced.)


OPINION OF BOARD: This dispute is the same in all material respects as in Award No. 11730. We adopt the opinion therein as determinative of the issues in this dispute.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

    That the parties waived oral hearing;


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 Agreement was not violated.


                  AWARD


    Claim denied.


              NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

              By Order of THIRD DIVISION


              ATTEST: S. H. Schulty

              Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of January 1964.