STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad that:
EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: The Agreements between the parties are available to your Board and by this reference are made a part hereof.
Knowles, Mississippi, is a station located at the end of a spur track, about three miles from the main track. The junction switch between this spur track and the main track is located just north of the depot at Gatesville, Mississippi. There are no positions under the Agreement at either Gatesville or Knowles. The position of agent-telegrapher at Gatesville was discontinued about October, 1958. The position at Catesville had been in existence for fifty years or more and the occupant thereof had performed
order rules of prior agreements containing identical language to the current agreement do not support the claim. The precise issues presented in this case have previously been passed upon by this Board and this Board should uphold its prior decisions lest the parties be in utter confusion as to their responsibilities.
The claim here presented is contrary to the agreement and is unreasonable as to practical railroad operations and should be denied.
OPINION OF BOARD: The claim herein involves the same parties and same issues as involved in Award 12761.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, 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