THIRD DIVISION Locket Number SG-24797


                    Edward L. Suntrup, Referee


                (Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
                (Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (Eastern Lines)


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood of
                Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation

                Company (Eastern Lines):


On behalf of Signalman K. N. Pavlica, Signal Gang No. 6, and Signalman D. E. Reed, Signal Gang No. 5, for 136 hours straight time pay and 29 hours overtime pay each account Houston Signal Shop signalmen making wiring changes outside the shop at Tower 68 and the new tower 87 building during November and December 1981. [Carrier file: 339-36-Aj
OPINION OF BOARD: By notice dated January 7, 1982, a pay claim was made by
 the Organization for two (2) Signalmen assigned to the Houston
 Division of the Carrier. The instant case centers on whether these two (2)
 Signalmen working for this Division, or whether other employees working for the
 Houston System Signal Shop, had prior seniority right to perform wiring work at
 Carrier Tower 68 and the Carrier Tower 87 Building on or about November 16, 1981
 and on or about December 1, 1981 and certain other days, as so stipulated in the
 Statement of Claim, which followed each of these dates. The organization charges
 in the instant claim that the Carrier violated Rules 401 and 407 of the Agreement
 between the organization and the Carrier dated September 30, 1969. These Rules,
 respectively, deal with seniority districts and with the, conditions under which
 an employee from one seniority district may work in another.
A complete review of the record by the Board shows that the instant claim is defective by its reference to the 1969 Agreement for support. The seniority rights here at bar are not subject to that Agreement, but to the Agreement of August 15, 1978 and the consolidated seniority roster which is the result of this latter Agreement.
        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;
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and
        That the Agreement was not violated.

            Award Number 24720 Page 2

                      Locket Number SG-24797

                      A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


Attest:
        Nancy J. ADe~of - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 9th day of March, 1984