PARTIES: THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPIERS
 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY


STATEMENT 1. Carrier violated the agreement between the parties hereto
 OF CLAIM: when commencing on or about September 1, 1950, and continuing
 until the present time, it caused, required and permitted yard
 masters at Pittsburgh Yard, Pennsylvania, to block trains by
 reporting all trains, light engines and yard engines clear of
 the main track to the operators at Laughlin Junction before re
 verse movements could be made between Laughlin Junction and
 Pittsburgh Yard, and by causing, requiring and permitting mem
 bers of train and engine crews to block trains, handle (receive,
 copy and deliver) Forms A (clearance cards) from the operators
 at Laughlin Junction, which work was and is reserved solely to
 employes covered by the Telegraphers' Agreement.
 2. Carrier be required to permit a joint check of its records
 to determine the number of violations occurring subsequent to
 September 4, 1950.
 3. Carrier be required to compensate the senior idle telegrapher
 or telegraphers (extra in preference) for one day's pay (8 hours)
 for a sufficient number of idle telegraphers to have handled the
 business at Pittsburgh Yard in each twenty-four hour period in
 accordance with our agreement to have eliminated the violations
 complained of on each and every date on-which a joint check of
 Carrier's records shows agreement to have been violated.
 FINDINGS:
 Prior to September 1, 1950, practically all movements on main tracks in
 Pittsburgh Yard were made under authority from the yardmasters. After that date
 instructions were issued transferring jurisdiction over main tracks in that area
 to the dispatcher. Operators at Laughlin Junction, 2.9 miles east of Pittsburgh,
 were instructed to ascertain from the_yardmaster at Pittsburgh that main tracks
 were clear of yard engines, light engines and trains before delivering orders to
 reverse trains between Laughlin Junction and Pittsburgh. Under a similar directive
 crews of light engines returning from Pittsburgh to Glenwood or other points were
 required to call the operator at Laughlin Junction to secure Form "A". There has
 been no telegrapher's position at Pittsburgh Yard since late in 1914.
There is no showing that the yardmaster kept any record of his conversations with the operator or in any way reported or recorded the arrival of trains reversed between Laughlin Junction and Pittsburgh. It is not violative of the Telegraphers' Agreement for a yardmaster to communicate with the nearest operator within terminal limits or for the nearest operator to communicate with the yardmaster by telephone in order to properly or efficiently perform their respective assigned duties. (See our Award in Docket 61). We can find no basis for holding that the Telegraphers' Agreement was violated merely because the carrier required the operator to ascertain from the yardmaster that yard tracks were clear of yard engines or trains before reversing trains between Laughlin Junction and Pittsburgh.
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 With respect to light engine crews receiving permission from the operator at Laughlin Junction to leave Pittsburgh, we find no violation in such use of the telephone for reasons which we have set forth in paragraph 2 of our Findings in Award No. 65.

 AWARD

 Claim denied.

 s/ B. N. Kinkead
 B. N. KinkeaA
 Employe Member (Dissenting

 Dated at Baltimore, Maryland this 23rd day of August, 1957

 s/Francis J. Robertson
 Francis J. Robertson
 Chairman

 s/ T. S. Woods
 T. S. Woods
 Carrier Member