(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

                    (Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company

                    ( The Western Railway of Alabama

                    ( Georgia Railroad


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

      Railroad Signalmen on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company, The Western Railway of Alabama, Georgia Railroad:


      On behalf of Telephone-Telegraph Maintainer F. L. Thigpen and Assistant Telephone-Telegraph Maintainer N. L. Johnson, headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, for eight (8) hours straight time on February 24, 1977, and ten (10) hours straight time on March 7, 1977, account Signalmen J. L. Yancey and S. H. Glover were instructed and permitted to perform duties assigned to Claimants by bulletin and the present Agreement when they removed telephone wires and crossarms between Mayson Avenue and Atlanta Yard."


      OPINION OF BOARD: This is a companion claim to one filed by the

      Organization on behalf of Signalman J. L. Yancey and S. H. Glover, the individuals who performed the work for which the Claimants in this case seek compensation.


      In that case, the Board issued Award No. 22652 in which it was found that the agreement had been violated and the claim was allowed.


            This Board reaffirms the opinions and findings contained in

_.__:_Award No. 22652._ _ .. ..._ -______ _ .. __ _. -_ _ _ __ ._ _.__.__ ._ ._. .__

            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 within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

                    Award Number 22722 Page 2

                    Docket Number SG-22464


That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

        That the Agreement was violated.


                      A W A R D


        Claim sustained.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of January 1980.

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