Robert M. O'Brien, 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 Railroad

                        Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) that:


            (a) The Southern Pacific Company violated the current Signalmen's Agreement effective April 1, 1 failed and/or declined to apply the Scope Rule, which resulted in the violation of Rule 70, by assigning recognized signal work of installing switch heaters at both switches at the crossover at the Great Northern junction, and both switches at the crossover on the west end of Southern Pacific Yard, Klamath Falls, Oregon, to employes who are not c


            (b) Leading Signalman E, G. White; Signalmen Larry Barker, Glenn Phipps, and W. R. Anderson be allowed eight (S) hours each at their respective rates of pay for May 25, 26, 27, 31, June 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28 and 29, 1966. (Carrier's File: SIG 152-202)


            OPINION OF BOARD: The dispute arose when Carrier assigned other than signal em-

            ployes to install electric switch heaters at various locations in Oregon between May 25 and June 29, 1966.


            The parties, the issues and the applicable Rules are identical to those

            present in Award 19506, and for the reasons stated therein the claim will

            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 Agreement was not violated.


                                A W A R D


                  Claim denied.


                                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                                        By Order of Third Division


            ATTEST: ~~Execuve e Secretary

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' ' Dated at Chicago, Illinois, thin 30th day of November 1972.

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