Rodney E. Dennis, Referee


(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
 (Southern Pacific Transportation Company (Western Lines)

 STATEMENT O' MA324: "Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of Rail
 road Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation Company
 (Pacific Lines):

 On behalf of Salem, Oregon, Signal Gang #'( employees (Signal Foreman P. L. Forty, Leading Signalmn J. C. Haugen, and Signalman D. W. White) for sixty-four hours each at their respective pro rata pay rate account on July 16, 1930, Carrier contracted with Santism Trenching Company. to dig in conduit pipes to be used for signal control and code line wire underground to eliminate pole line that had been used to support the wires and/or cables."

 OPINION CP BOARD: We understand the conduit involved in this case to be a re
 placement of the communication pole-line formerly used to
 support bath communications and signal circuit wiring. While the exact method
 of support differs, we are unable, from the record before us to determine that
 the controlling principle has changed. For that reason we will deny the instant
 claim, confining our decision strictly to this case.

        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 Enployes 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 ADJUSZANT BOARD

                              By Order of Third Division


        ATTEST: Acting Executive Secretary National Railroad Adjustment Board


        By

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Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 23rd day of March 1933.