PARTIES: BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYES
and
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RA31ROAD COMPANY
AWARD IN DOCKET N0. 27

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

(1) The Carrier violated the effective agreement by assigning employees of the signal department to the cleaning of snow from switches at the interlocking plants at Heath and Outville, Ohio, on December 21, 22, and 23, 1960.

(2) Trackman Brook Cornell be now compensated for three days pay at his respective pro rata rate of pay account of this referredto violation of the Agreement."

FINDINGS: We can find no fault with Signal Department employees,
during their regular tour of duty and while a snow storm was in progress, sweeping snow from switches at two interlocking plants.

To this extent this claim is distinguished from the circumstances of our Award in Docket No. 25.






                  Edward A. Lynch,

                  Chairman


(s) A. J. Cunningham (s) T. S. Woods
A. J. Cunningham, Employee Member T. S. Woods, Carrier Member

Dated at Baltimore, Maryland, this 7th day of May, 1963.