C. Robert Roadley, 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 in the violation of Rule 70, by assigning the work of maintaining, inspecting, testing and repairing part of the hot box detector systems located west of Planeport, Texas and east of Anapra, New Mexico, with companion equipment located in the Yard Masters Tower in E1 Paso, Texas yards, to employes not covered by the Classification Rules of our Agreement.


            (b) Mr. C. E. Crumley be allowed an equivalent amount of time as that used by employes who are not covered by the Signalmen's Agreement in performing the assigned wo


            (c) This claim continue, and apply to any employes succeeding the claimant in paragraph (b) above, on assignment of Signal Maintainer at Planeport until the violation mentioned in paragraph (a) above ceases. (Carrier's File: SIG 152-220)


            OPINION OF BOARD; The work involved in this dispute is identical to that in

            volved in Award No. 14279. The dispute resolved by Award

            No. 14279 was governed by the parties' Scope Rule in their 1947 Agreement. That

            Rule was revised in 1963, but insofar as the present work is concerned, we note

            no specific language to overturn Award No. 14279, neither do we find that award

            to be palpable error.


                  We must therefore deny this claim.


            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;


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                  Award Number 19730 Page 2

                  Docket Number SG-17878


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: 4r, 44.
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of April 1973.