Gene T. Ritter, Referee


          (Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

                      (Soo Line Railroad Company


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

                      Signalmen on the Soo Line Railroad Company:


          On behalf of D. W. Johnson, Signal Maintainer at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, for S 1/2 hours overt by the Signalmen's Agreement were assigned to perform tests and make adjustments to the Wheel Thermo


                (Carrier's File:900-46-B-1007)


          OPINION OF BOARD; The facts and issues involved in this dispute are identical

          to the facts and issues involved in Award No. 19692. There

          fore, this claim will be denied for the same reasons as outlined in Award No.

          19692.


          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 Employee involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employee 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: Executive ecret


          Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of March 1973.


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