SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 117


        ' ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS

        and

                  MISSOURI PACIVIC RAILROAD COMPANY


Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Missouri Pacific Railroad that:

        1. Carrier violated the agreement between the parties when, in changing the assigned rest days of C. L. Short, Wichita, Kansas, it permitted him to work only three days in his work week beginning May 22, 1954, and,


        2. Carrier shall now compensate Claimant Short for two additional days at the straight time rate.


OPINION OF BOARD: While existing facts in this claim are not identical with those
present in Docket No. 28, said claim under consideration here
involves the same parties and the same rules as were present in Docket No. 28, Award
No. 28, previously considered by this Board.

It is the opinion of the Board that the controlling factual situation here present, when considered in the light of the cited rules, is comparable to that considered and applied in the aforesaid award. For the reasons stated and to the extent indicated in Award No. 28, this claim is denied.

        FINDINGS: The Special Board of Adjustment No, 117, 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 Special Board of Adjustment has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and,

        That the Carrier did not violate the effective agreement.


                          AWARD

        Claim denied.


                  SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSMNT NO. 117


          j Livingmith - Chairman


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C. 0. Griffith - Emp Member G. W. John on - Carrier 14ember

St. Louis, Missouri
July 26, 1956