. THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-22776

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
 (Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood
 of Railroad Signalmen on the Louisville and Nashville
 Railroad Company

 On behalf of Signal Maintainer E. E. Gaines (the senior signal maintainer on seniority district No. 2) for six hours at time and one-half rate account a Foreman called to perform maintainers work in violation of the Signalmen's Agreement Rules 3 and 52(c)."

OPINION OF BOARD: The claim before us was initiated by the Local Chairman
 on behalf of E. E. Gaines, Senior Signal Maintainer
 assigned to Carrier's seniority District No. 2 located in Eastern Kentucky.
 The Organization alleges that the Carrier violated Rules 3 and 52 (c) of the
 Signalmen's Agreement, when an Sunday, June 19, 1977, Carrier failed to call
 the Claimant to work on signal trouble and instead utilized the service of
 a Signal Foreman.

 Upon a thorough review and examination of the record, the Board determines it cannot render an Award on the merits of the instant case because the Local Chairman who initiated the claim has advanced the Organization's position based on the wrong agreement rules. Clearly, under the surrounding circumstances of the instant situation, Rules 3 and 52 (c) bear no relation to the claim at hand. In support of this judgment we note that in the reply brief filed by the President of the Organization, the relevant Rules, 18 and 23 are cited as the basis for argument, with brief reference to Rule 3 and no reference to Rule 52(c).

 It is critically important for those advancing a claim to do so based on relevant rules and employing appropriate argument.


        FINDIMS: 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 Employee 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 claim be dismissed.


                      A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


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        Executive Secretary


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