SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT IdO. 192
PARTIES: BROTHERHOOD OF RAIILIAY AMD STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, E%PRuSS AND STATION EMPLOYES
and
THE SALTM0RE AIM OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY
Ai9ARD IN DOCIfr'.T f·10. 27
STATEMENT Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:
OF CLAIIf:
(1) Carrier violated and continues to violate Rules 1, 4(b-2), and
other Rules of the Clerks? Agreement when it permitted the Trainmaster to assist
the Chief Clerk on Mondays in the performance of certain work assigned to the Chief
Clerk, and permitted the Chief Clerk on Nondays to perform other work which on other
days of the week is assigned to the Yard Clerk, and
(2) That S. J. Cutlip, holding position 63-1-561, Yard Clerk, Cowen,
IT. Va., be paid for one day on each date, itarch 23, 30, April 20, 27, May
4.
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25, June 1, 3, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, August 3, 10, 17, 24, September 7.4, 21,
October 5, 26, November 2, 9, 169 23, 30, December 7, 14, 21, 1953; and J. H.
Morris, holding position 68-1-569, Yard Clerk, Cowen, W. Va., be paid for one day
on each date August 31 and September 21, 1953; as well as similar claims on subsequent dates for each Claimant.
FIIIDIMS: Claimant Cutlip is the incumbent of a yard clerk position at Cowen,
W. Va., working Tuesday through Saturday. On Sundays relief is
furnished on that job by the holder of a regular relief assignment. On Mondays
the Chief Clerk absorbed the duties of the position. It is asserted by the employees that the Trainmaster assumed the duties of the Chief Clerkfs position on
Plondays when he (the Chief Clerk) was out calling craws, work normally performed
on the yard clerkas position.
There is no concrete proof shown by the employees to establish that the
Traiwnaster performed any of the work normally performed by the Chief Clerk while
the latter was calling crews or at any other time on the dates of claim. The
Carrier denies that the Trainmaster did such work and inferences to be drawn from
correspondence submitted by the Carrier in connection with a claim for the proper
rate on the Chief C1erkQS position support the Carrierfs view. In this situation
we have no alternative but to hold that the employees have not shown sufficient
facto to establish a violation of the A;reement and therefore that the claim should
be dismissed.
Claim dismissed.
E. J. Hoffman
Employee Member
/s/ Francis J. Robertson
Francis J. Robertson
Chairman
/s/ T. S. Woods
T. S. Woods
Carrier Member
Dated at Baltimore, Maryland this 19th day of February, 1959.