NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

Award Number 20745

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-20559

Francis X. Quinn, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

(Southern Pacific Transportation Company

( (Pacific Lines)

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation Company that:

(a) The Southern Pacific Transportation Company violated or failed to apply the provisions of the Agreement signed June 8, 1972 between the Company and the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, also the provisions of Rule 56 of the Schedule Agreement.

(b) Mr. M. F. Perizzolo be allowed the benefits of the agreement signed June 8, 1972, also the benefits of Rule 56 of the Schedule Agreement. (Carrier's File: SIG 176-1)

OPINION OF BOARD: Unsupported self-s_rving statements are not evidence and
cannot take the place of probative evidence. The instant claim is lacking in merit or agreement support. Therefore, we will deny the claim.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

Thac the parties waived oral hearing;

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: Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of May 1975.