Joseph E. Cole, Referee


        (Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

        PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

        (The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company


                    STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company that:


        (a) The Carrier has violated and continues to violotg the Signalmen's Agreement, particularly the Scope, when, commencing on of about October 20, 1969, other than signal forces were assigned to install and meAntaiii oWitch heaters (snow melters) on power switches in traffic control territory at, Ashford Jct., Longhill, Klawitter and Windfall, N.Y., and Tina, Pa.


        (b) The following employes now be allowed 41 hours pay each at their respective rates of pay due to other than signal forces performing the signal work at issue with respect to installation:


              J. R. Mauthe, Foreman I. D. No. 1402865

              I. A. Brown, Signalman I.D. No. 1403114

              D. W. Pearson, Signalman I. D. No. 1503244

              H. M. Smith Asst. Signalman

              I.D. No. 1410569

              J. Peters Foreman I.D. No. 1413160

              V. J. Brol Signalman I.D. No. 1205430

              D. J. Herrick Signalman I.D. No. 1502189

              W. M. Zimmerman Asst. Signalman

              I.D. No. 1412389


        (c) Signal Maintainers J. Rockwell, I.D. No. 141302, and C. Maybury,

        I.D. No. 1404212, now be allowed eight hours' pay each per week commencing Dec

        ember 1, 1969, to continue so long as this violation exists due to other than

        signal forces being assigned to maintain snow melters on their territory.

        (Carrier's File: 2-SG-39)


                    OPINION OF BOARD: 1.The history and exhibits of the Carrier and Claimants shows that other crafts usually and historically have engaged in the installation and maintenance of Switch Heaters.


        2. Where the control is through signal or interlocking facilities, it is proper and in accordance with the generally recognized principles or lines or allocation to assign the work on such controls to signal employes; however, such is not the case here.


              3. The Scope agreement does not award this work to Signal employees.


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                  Award Number 19350 Page 2

                  Docket Number SG-19272


        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, 1?34;

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

        That the Agreement was not violated.


                      A T·I A R D


        Claim denied.


                            NATIO%'fL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: ./.
 Executive Secretary

        Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of July 1972.


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