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- NATIONAL RAILROAD AWUS71ENT BOARD

Award Number 23275

THIRD DIVISION Docket Number SG-23130

George S. Roukis, Referee

(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES TO DISPUTS:

(Southern Railvay Company

STATFIIIENT OF CIAI14: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of

Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Railway Company et al:

Claim on behalf of A. L. Swicegood for meal expense above the $9.00 limit carrier placed on daily meal allowance."

(General Chairman file: SR-43) (Carrier file: SG-337)

OPINION OF BOARD: In a companion case Award No. 23274, involving the

same parties and the same issue, we found Third Division Award 23190 dispositive of the claim. Based upon the evidence of record before us, we find the aforesaid Award controlling herein and thus we are compelled to deny the instant 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 the Agreement was not violated.

A W A R D

Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTIONT BOARD

By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: ~~ ~~s~.~/

Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of April 1981.