Joseph E. Cole, Referee


              (Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

              PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

              (Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines)


              STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Rail

              road Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Company (Pacific

              Lines) that:


              (a) The Southern Pacific Company violated the current Signalmen's Agreement effective April 1, 1947 (reprinted April 1, 1958 including revisions) when it failed and/or declined to apply the Scope Rule which resulted in the violation of Rule 70, when it assigned recognized "Signal Work" to employes not covered by the Signalmen's Agreement, at the Signal System installed to control the movement of engines at the engine washing facility at Eugene Yard, Oregon, on or about April 28, 1965, and on or about May 10, 1965.


              (b) Messrs. W. Barber, A. J. Trojan, and G. E. Shank be allowed sixteen (16) hours each at their respective time and one-half overtime rates of pay for the work done on or about April 28, and May 10, 1965, on the signal system at the engine washing facility at Eugene Yard. (Carrier's File SIG-152-181)


              OPINION OF BOARD: The washing machinery and apparatus is not part of the signal

              system, and from the record, does not belong to the signalmen

              under the scope rule.


                            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 I
                    That the Agreement was not violated.


                                  A W A R D


                    Claim denied.


                                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                                          By Order of Third Division


              ATTEST:

                      Executive Secretary


              Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of September 1972.