(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway Company

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen on the Chicago & Illinois
Midland Railway Company:

On behalf of Signal Maintainer E. J. Gallant for one overtime call (2.67 hours at the time and one-half rate of pay) account A.C. feed for the battery charging system for the interlocker was removed, re-routed, and re-energized by shop on June 23, 1976, after regular Signal Department hours."



OPINION OF BOARD: Prior to the time in question, electric power
to the basement of the Carrier's Springfield
Station Building was furnished by an underground cable from the
nearby interlocking-tower; it serviced furnaces, telephones and a
signal battery charging system located there. A failure of the
underground cable interrupted the electric service to each of
those facilities. Temporary restoration of electric service to the
telephone system was made by the Carrier's electrician, and to the
signal battery charging system by the Signal Maintainer. Permanent
restoration of service to the facilities in the basement was made
by the Carrier's electricians by retiring the old underground
cable and installing new wiring from the upper levels of the
building; this included removing the temporary service to the
Signal battery charging system and causing the newly installed
service to furnish current to it.

Signalmen claim that the "...A.C. feed for the battery charging system for the interlocking was removed, rerouted, and re-energized by shop electricians..." in violation of the Signalmen's Agreement. The Carrier contends that all of the work involved here was reserved to its electricians and demands that the Board notify the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of the pendency of this dispute. The Board has given that notice and we have the submission of that organization before us.



While the Petitioner asserts that some of the work performed by the electricians is "signal work", he does not show us just what that work was; without such showing we are unable to determine from this record whether or not Petitioner's agreement with the Carrier reserves that work to Signalmen. We must therefore dismiss the claim.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving
the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon,
and 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 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 an agreement violation has not been shown.


                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: 4/4 0&~
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of:.Worember-,1978.

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