e Docket No. CL-alas
 0 Award No. 15
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 Y SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT N0. 177 (PRR)

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

 (a) The Carrier violated the Rules Agreement, effective May 1, 1942, except as amended, particularly Rules 3-B=1, 3-B-2, and 3-E-1, by diverting-83 cars of L.C.L, merchandise on-November 10, 1952, 56 carloads on-November 11, 1952, and 5 carloads on November 13, 1952. These cars-of merchandise, all destined 11th Street Freight Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Conemaugh Division, were diverted to freight stations in other seniority districts.

 (b) That A. J. Marino and 316 other named regularly assigned employes,
 as well as all Extra employes, at Eleventh Street Freight Stations who were de
 prived of the overtime required to unload and handle the diverted freight, each
 be allowed one dayqs pay, at the punitive rate, for each of the dates mentioned
 in the claim, November 10, 11 and 13, 1952, as a penalty. (Docket C-706)

 FIIIDINGS: It appears from the record that the 11th Street Station at Pittsburgh
 handled LCL freight both for the city and other adjacent localities,
 Two truckers? strikes in August and September, 1952 resulted in heavy increase of
 LOL business and these were followed by a strike of teamsters in Pittsburgh on
 October 28, which held up deliveries in the city and caused overcrowding of plat
 form space at the freight house and otherwise hampered the transfer work. The
 eventual result, early in November, was, in the wards of the employes, "a
 staggering and crippling accumulation of cars at 11th Street Station and in the
 adjacent yards.°P

 To relieve the accumulating congestion Carrier made effort to employ available platform forces and called for increasing overtime, for which it paid in the month of November more than $63,000.00, being 35% of the total wages paid those forces.

 Further, to relieve the congestion and resulting delay Carrier diverted the ears here complained of to freight stations in other seniority districts. However, it appears to have diverted no more than necessary to ease the congestion without affecting full time employment at 11th Street Station since the employes there worked more overtime in the latter part of November, after the diversions than before.

 In the situation here presented as in that in Docket 7789, we find that due to conditions beyond Carrier's control the employes were unable to accomplish timely performance of the work and Carrier was thereby released from any obligation which might exist to the extent that it acted in the diversion of cars to other freight stations for handling.
AM: Claim denied.

/s/ R. H. Skinner, Jr.
 R. H. Skinner, Jr., Carrier Member S, U. 1P. Loehr, Employe Member
 (s/ Mortimer Stone
 Mortimer Stone, Chairman