IN THE MATTER OF AN ARBITRATION )
 between )
 )
 CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY THE )
 NATIONAL RAILWAY LABOR CONFERENCE )
 AND THE SOUTHEASTERN, EASTERN AND ) AWARD
 WESTERN CARRIERS' CONFERENCE )
 COMMITTEES )
 )
 and )
 EMPLOYEES' NATIONAL CONFERENCE
 COMMITTEE, FIVE COOPERATING RAILWAY
 LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
 )
 (NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD )
 CASE N0. A-7948) )

 The Board of Arbitration provided for in the Arbitration Agreement of July 19, 1967 having been named and constituted in accordance with said Arbitration Agreement and in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, after hearing the parties or their representatives and considering the testimony, exhibits and argaments presented, does hereby make its Award as follows:





























        A. The carrier shall designate a headquarters pint for each regular position and each regular assigned relief position. For employees, other than those serving in regular positions or in regular assigned relief positions, the carrier shall designate a headquarters point for each employee. No designated headquarters point may be changed more frequently than once each 60 days and only after at least 15 days' written notice to the employee affected.


        B. When employees are unable to return -to their headquarters point on any day they shall be reimbursed for the actual reasonable cost of meals and lodging away from their headquarters point not in excess of :7.00 per day.


        C. An employee in such service shall be ih:^nished with free transportation ')y the railroad company in traveling from his headquarters point to another point, and return, or from one point to another. If such transportation is not furnished, he will be reimbursed for the cost of rail fare if he travels on other rail lines, or the cost of other public transportation used in making the trip; or if he has an automo'?ile which he is willing -to use and the carrier authorizes him to use said automobile, he will be paid an allowance of nine cents for each mile in traveling from his headquarters point to the work point, and return, 3r from one work point to another.


        D. If the time consumed in actual travel, including waiting time enroute, from the headquarters point to the work location, together with necessary time spent waiting for the employee's shift to start, exceeds one hour, or if on completion of his shift necessary time spent waiting for transprtation plus the time of -travel, including waiting time enroute, necessary to return to his headquarters point or to the next work location exceeds one hour, then the excess over one hour in each case shall be paid for as working time at the straight time rate of the job to which traveled. When employees are traveling by private automobile time shall be computed at the rate of two minutes per mile traveled.


III. (Not reproduced - applies to dining car employees only.)

    IV. Except as benefits have been awarded in Sections I, II, and III and subparagraphs thereof, all other requests contained in Article IV of the employees' Section 6 Notice of May 10, 1966 are denied.


    V. Inanfar as there are presently agreements in effect between any of the carriers and organizations party to this arbitration which agreements include provisions dealing with the types of employee benefits provided for in Sections I, II, and III, and the subparagraphs thereof in this award, the organizations party to such existing agreements shall have the option of accepting army or all of the benefits provided in this award or of continuing in effect

    any or all of the provisions of the existing agreement in lieu thereof. Such election must be exercised on or before December 31, 1967. There shall be no duplication of benefits.


Executed this 30th day of September 1967 in the city of Washington, D. C.

                              ARBITRATION HOARD N0. 298


                            /s/ Paul D. Hanlon,

                            Paul D. Hanlon, Neutral Member,

                            Chairman


                            /s/ David H. Stowe

                            David H. Stowe, Neutral Member


                            /s/ G. E. Leighty

                            George E. Leighty, Employee Member


                            /s/ H. C. Crotty

                            Harold C. Crotty, Employee Member


                            /s/ A. E. Egbers

                            Alvin E. Egbers, Carrier Member


                            Ls/ R. L. Harvey

                            Richard L. Harvey, Carrier Member


            (Attachments to Avard not reproduced.)

Interpretations of the Arbitration Board, Arrived at in Conference
    at the Time the Award was Executed at Washington, D. C. on


                  September 30, 1967


1. It was decided by the Board, that the provisions of Section I,
 shall not apply to employees where the men report for duty at a
 fixed point, which remains the same point throughout the year.

 2. Under the provisions of Section I C 1, each man will be paid
 the amount of travel time from one point to another which the
 conveyance offered by the carrier would take regardless of how
 any man actually travels from one point to the other.

 3. Under the provisions of Section II, the sixty-day limitation
 on change of headquarter's point is not intended to apply in the
 case of a man who obtains a regular position by exercise of
 seniority or otherwise.

 Example: Employee Smith is on the extra list at Chicago, and on November 1, 1967, the carrier designates Chicago as his headquarter's point. rn December 1, a regular position with headquarter's point at Aurora becomes vacant, and Smith is the successful. bidder for the position. Smith's headquarter's point automatically becomes Aurora, as of his first day on that job, and the expense allowances provided in Section II, are not payable.

 4. Full time cooks will be employed and paid by the carrier, where
 the :>1.00 per day meal allowance is paid under Section I B 1.

 Uhere the cimpany uses a helper or laborer in the gang, on a part-time basis, at the camp, and he also performs other work with the gang, then the $2.00 allowance shall be paid, as provided in Section I B 2.

 5. Under Section II B, if the carrier provides a lodging facility, at an away from headquarter's point, and an employee is agreeable to using such facility, then the maximum allowance will be $3.00 for meals.
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                  ARBITRATION BOARD N0. 2~8


        IN THE MATTER OF ARBITRATION )

        Between )

        CARRIERS REPRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL )

        RAILWAY LABOR CONFERENCE AND THE )

        EASTERN, SOUTHEASTERN AND WESTERN )

        CARRIERS' CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

        And ) Interpretation No. 1

        )

        EMPLOYES' NATIONAL CONFERENCE )

        COMMITTEE2 FIVE COOPERATING )

        RAILWAY LABOR ORGANIZATIONS )


        (NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

        CASE No. A-79+8) )


It is hereby determined that: if an organization party to the Award of Arbitration Board No. 298 expresses an option which it considers available to it under Section V of the Award and so advises the Carrier in writing at any time prior to midnight of December 31, . 1;67 (extended by agreement of the parties through January 15, 1368) such expression shall be compliance with Section V of the Award.
 Disputes relative to the propriety of such elections may be resolved after that time.

 The effective date of options, held to be proper, shall be October 15, 1967 and payments shall be adjusted accordingly to the
                        (COPY)


extent necessary to give such effect.

 Dated this 12th day of December 1967.

                      Arbitration Board No. 2~8


            (Signed) Paul D. Hanlon

            Paul D. Hanlon, Neutral Member,

            Chairman

            David H. Stowe

            David H. Stowe, Neutral Member


G. E. Leighty

George E. Leighty, Employee Member


H. C. Crotty

Harold C. Crotty, Employee Member


                              A. E. Embers

                      Alvin E. Egbers, Carrier Member


R. L Harvey

Richard L. Harvey, Carrier Member

                        (COPY)


                      CERTIFICATE


We the members of Arbitration Board No. 235, Case No. A 7348 in the proceedings to which this Certificate is attached hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Interpretation No. 1 to the Award of the Board in said proceeding, as the same is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

                      Arbitration Board No. 238


              (Signed) Paul D. Hanlon

              Paul D. Hanlon, Neutral Member,

              Chairman

              David H. Stowe

              David H. Stowe, Neutral Member

              G. E. Leighty

              George E. Leighty, Employee Member

              H. C. Crotty

              Harold C. Crotty, F3iployee Member

              A. E. Egbers

              A_. vin E. Egbers, Carrier Member


R. L. Harvey

Richard L. Harvey, Carrier Member