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 Arbitrator was also requested by the Company, to which the Union acquiesced, that the Arbi- trator, visit several other plants doing submarine building SO that he may get a first hand acquaint- ance with the work done at these yards by coppersmiths and pipe filters and the practice followed by the other companies in the desig- nation of the Job and the rates applied to them.
 At the close of the hearings the Arbitrator made arrangements to visit the shipyard of the Manito- woe Shipbuilding Company, Mani towoc, Wisconsin and the Cramp ShipbuiIding Corporation at Phil- adelphia, Pa. At the latter plant he was accompanied by Union and Company representatives. The Portsmouth Navy Yard was visited by the Company and Union repre- sentatiyes, in which, because of illness the Arbitrator was unable to join, but received complete report as to the practices followed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard from both representatives
 Arbitrator also contacted nu- merOus other sources from which he gathered valuable information concerning this problem.
 
 Arbitrator has given this matter a great deal of consideration, and after a very thorough going de- liberation has reached the follow ing conclusion, based primarily on what he found the practice to be in other yards, as we'll as on the practice followed by the Electric Boat Company for the several past years.
 Arbitrator regrets that, due to conditions over which he had no control, he was unable to hand down his conclusion earlier, and he hopes that the delay will not in any way cause any hardship to anyone
 The Arbitrator rules, therefore: l. The proper definition and job description of a copper smith, which is to be applic- able at the Electric Boat Com pany, is to be:
 One who fabricateS various
 articles of sheet copper; who
 builds assemblies of copper
 pipe or copper nickel pipe and fittings; heats and bends cop
 per or copper nickel to vari-
 eus curvatures; silver-sOlders pipe and fittings together to form assemblies; reduces pipe diameters by heating and drawing; lays out, cuts, bends, soldiers, and Tivets various shapes of articles from sheet copper.
 2. Because of the Company'S policy in the past to employ numerous craftsmen whom it designated as cOppersmiths, al- though these craftsmen did not and do not perform work of coppersmiths as defined and
 described in this award, these craftsmen are to be continued In their present classification. The Company is to continue
 to employ craftsmen in the coppersmith c1assifications in the same ratio to first class pipefitters as were employed
 either on July g, 1943 or on
 May 3, 1944, at whichever time the ratio. of craftsmen rated as eoppersmiths to first class pipefitters was the great CT.
 The Arbitrator was not called upon, by the Submission, and therefore does not rule on the relative skill requirements of the work as performed by the crafts men known as pipefitters at the Electric Boat Company plant in comparison with skilled require ments of pipefitters employed at other plants engaged in similar work.
 Respectfully submitted, iIS/ Maxwell Copelof. Arbitrator. Dated September Il, 1914. Witness to signature:
 /Sz Ruth c. Beers.