Joseph A. Sickles, Referee


          (Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen PARTIES 7b DISPUTE:

                        (Southern Railway Company


          STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claims of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of

                        Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Railway Company, et al.:


                                  Claim No. 1


General Chairman file: SR-113. Carrier file: SG-389 I On behalf of System Gang Signalman J. E. Petree for meal expense he incurred over the arbitrary $9.00 per day limit imposed by the (,terrier, beginning with the expense period ending January 15, 1979, and continuing so long as Carrier refuses to reimburse his actual necessary meal expense.

                                  Claim No. 2


                  General Chairman file: SR-114 Carrier file: SG-390


          On behalf of System Gang Signalman R. W. Walley for meal expense he incurred over the arbitrary $9.00 per day limit imposed by the Carrier, beginning with the expense period ending January 15, 1979, and continuing so long as Ca - er refuses to reimburse his actual necessary meal expense."


          OPINION OF BOARD: This case presents a dispute which is similar to the one

          presented to us in Docket SG-22861. We have compered this record to the record presented in the mentioned case, and we conclude that Award 332 ,, ntrols.


                  ,';. FINDINGS:?Th0!..Vyird D vision of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and aVh4 evidence, finds and holds:


          `·~,_ ;..That-ths~ parties waived oral hearing;


          That the Carrier and the Employer involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;


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                      Award Number 23499 Docket Number SG-23409

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Pie 2 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jursdiatioa over
 the dispute involved herein; and

        That the Claim be dismissed.


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        Claim dismissed.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD AWU85MT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive ecreU-r,


Dated at Chicago). Illinois-1 this 8th day of January 1982.

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