Parties to Dispute: ( (Electrical Workers) -


                        ( The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company


        Dispute: Claim of Employes:


            (1) That the Carrier erred and violated the contractual rights

            of W. R. Schultz and A. J. Ritter, Jr. when they were suspended

            from service pending an investigation.


                (2) That, therefore, Mr. Schultz and Mr. Ritter be compensated for all time lost from date suspended to date discharged.


        Findings:


        The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record arid all the evidence, finds that:


' L.: The carrier or carriers-and the employe or employes involved in this
        dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the

        Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.


        This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.


            Parties to said dispute waived right of appearance at hearing thereon.


            Claimants, Electrical Trainees of less than one year's seniority were:

      _ caught sleeping on duty in a chair car with pillows beneath their heads

      on the evening of September 28, 1973. The facts involved in this case

      are set forth in greater detail in our recent Award 7006

      wherein we deny their claim for reinstatement to the positions from which

      they were discharged following investigation on October 5, 1973. In that

      Award we found that there was no procedural irregularity, that substantial

      evidence supported the charges and, that in light of the nature of the

      offense and their generally unsatisfactory performances, no mitigating

      circumstances warranted the substitution of our judgment for that of -

      Carrier with request to the quantum of discipline assessed.


Petitioners herein move that, irrespective of the merits of the case for dismissal, Claimants were improperly suspended from service under Rule 332 between the dates of September 28, 1973 and October 5, 1973, when they were dismissed from all service, and should be compensated at least :nor that much time.
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 Award No. 7007
 Docket No. 6858
 2-AT&SF-EW-'76

 We have reviewed this position in light of our earlier Awards 1541 and 4123, dealing with substantially identical language and position. We see in this case, no basis for deviating from the findings enunciated therein with respect to suspension under Rule 332 in sleeping cases. Claimants' suspensions in the circumstances and in the face of that authority cannot be held improper.

 Upon the basis of the foregoing and consideration of the entire record we are constrained to deny the claims.

 AWARD
Claim denied.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division


Attest: Executive Secretary
 National Railroad Adjustment Board

 Bye
 R emarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 20th day of February, 1976.