(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
 of Railroad Signlamen on the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company that:

 (a) Carrier violated and continues to violate the Signalmen's Agreement, particularly the Scope, whe
(b) Carrier pay to Signal Foreman John Adams; Signal men R. R. West, F. H. Clay, S. C. Austin, D. E. Winfried, and J. A. Scarbrought; Assistant Signal men W. and Signal Helper J. B. Bagley at their respective overtime rates a total of three hundred and fifty hours on a prorated basis for each Defect Detector wired by Ogilvie Electronics, Ine. of Jacksonville, Fla., as of May 10, 1972.

 (c) Carrier make known to the Organization the total number of Defect Detectors wired and fabricated Inc. as of May 10, 1972

OPIPION OF BOARD: The present claim demands that ten named Claimants
 be allowed pay at their respective overtime rates
 for a total of three hundred and fifty hours on a pro rated basis
 "for each Defect Detector wired by Ogilvie Electronics, Inc. of
 Jacksonville, Fla., as of May 10, 1972." The Organization's General
 Chairman explained that he intended the claim to cover instances sub
 sequent to May 10, 1972.

 We have carefully searched the present record for evidence of such work having been performed in the manner alleged subsequent to May 10, 1972, and have found none.

 In these circumstances the claim is hypothetical and we do not resolve such questions. (Awards 14409 and 16441) The claim must be dismissed.






That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

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







                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: a~A~ P
        Executive Secretary


. Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 22nd day of November 1974.