(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific ( Railroad Company

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood
 of Railroad Signalmen on the Chicago, Milwaukee,
 St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company:

 On behalf of Signal Maintainers A. F. Booth and H. F. Miller for the difference between time and one-half and double time pay on August 5, 1972 as follows:



OPINION OF BOARD: At the heart of this dispute is Article V of the
 Mediation Agreement of November 16, 1971. The words used in Article V are to be taken in the ordinary and popular sense, unless from the context it appears to have been the intention of the parties that they should sense.

 Article V provides for double time after 16 hours' continuous service in any 24 hour period comp time of the employe's regular shift. This simply means that in computing double time for work in exc starting point of the 24 hour period.

 The record indicates that Claimant A. F. Booth was deserving of double time pay on August 5, 197 His claim will be sustained. Accordingly Claimant H. F. Miller did not fulfill the requirements of a 24 hour period. Therefore his claim is denied.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, 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 the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;


That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; an
That the Agreement was violated to the extent shown in Opinion.

                  A W A R D


Claim sustained to the extent indicated in the Opinion and Findings.

                      NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                      By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 21st day of ,March 1975.