(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and ( Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, ( Express and Station Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company



(a) Carrier violated Rule 1, Scope and Rule 2, Handling Train Orders of the November 1, 1974 Clerks' Agreement, at Marshall, Missouri, when on May 7, 1975, regularly assigned train order operator's duties were performed by employes not subject to any of the rules of the BRAC Agreement, and

(b) Operator R. K. Farrell shall now be compensated for a call, in the amount of $22.48, for this permitted or required violation of :he November 1, 1974 Clerks' Agreement.

OPINION OF BOARD: The Organization asserts that pertinent agreement
rules permit only employes covered by its agreement
to receive, copy and deliver train orders.

On May 7, 1975, Train Order No. 57 was given by the Dispatcher to Claimant (Operator-Clerk) who copied the order and delivered it - by telephone - to the Conductor at a location where employes subject to the Clerks' Agreement were not employed.

Except in emergency situations (where Dispatchers - or others not normally entitled to do so - handle train orders), a Telegrapher is the employe who is entitled to perform the work of receiving, copying and delivering train orders; and, under the record of this dispute; we conclude that this Claimant did, in fact, handle the train order - not the Conductor. Accordingly, we find no basis to determine that the Agreement was violated.





                  Docket Number CL-21599


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 ADUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Third Division


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TTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of July 1977.

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