Francis X. Quinn, Referee


                          (Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship

                          ( Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station

            ( Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

                          (Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company


            STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood

                          (GL-7532) that:


            1. Carrier violated and continues to violate the Agreement between the parties when it transferred the work being performed by employes under the Agreement at to employes not so covered on another railroad and another seniority district.


            2. Carrier further violated and continues to violate the, agreement between the parties when it transferred the work being performed by employes under the Agr


            3. Carrier shall return the work to Chattanooga District employes of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and for each day that said work is handled by employes not under the Agreement, the Carrier shall, commencing October 5, 1972 and continuing thereafter until the violation ceases, pay the equivalent of a day's pay (eight hours) in each twenty four hour period, to each of the six senior idle employes, extra in preference, on the seniority district.


            OPINION OF BOARD: The claim alleges that Carrier violated the Agree

            ment when it (1) transferred the work being per

            formed by employes under the Agreement at East End Avenue, Chatta

            nooga, Tennessee, to employes not covered by the Agreement on another

            railroad and another seniority district; and (2) transferred the work

            being performed by employes under the Agreement at Lewis Street Tower,

            Chattanooga, Tennessee, to employes not so covered on another senior

            ity district.


            The record shows that the Petitioner also progressed to the tribunal having jurisdiction, a dispute under the Washington Job Protection Agreement allegin the Carrier effected a coordination of its facilities at East


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                          Award Number 20753 Page 2

                          Docket Number CL-20714


          End Avenue and Lewis Street Tower, Chattanooga, Tennessee with C. T. Tower of the Southern Railway System, Chattanooga, Tennessee, commencing October 5, 1972. Special Board of Adjustment No. 605 rendered its Award No. 390 on that d that the changes made did not effect a coordination, and holding that the record before that Board was barren of any showing that any L&N work which survived the substantial physical changes made in Chattanooga is now being performed by S decision disposed of the issues involved in (1) that is, the alleged transfer of work to employes not covered by the Agreement on another railroad and another seniority district.


          As to (2) the alleged transfer of work being performed by employes under the Agreement at Lewis Street Tower to employes not so covered on another seniority district, the Petitioner has not submitted probative evidence to sup this Board has held, in numerous decisions, that the control of switches and signals through Centralized Traffic Control systems, manned by train dispatchers, is not a violation of the Petitioner's Agreement. Awards 19767, 19594, 19068, 14342, 14341, 10725, 10401, 10303.


          We have no alternative but to dismiss part (1) of the claim, and deny parts (2) and (3).


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


                That the parties waived oral hearing;


          That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes wit 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


                Part (1) of the claim dismissed; parts (2) and (3) denied.


                                  NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                                  By Order of Third Division

          ATTEST: ~i ~~ oqwi~"

                Executive Secretary


          Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 20th day of June 1975.


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