STATEMENT OF CLAIM: * * * for and in behalf of C. Bell who is now, and for some years past has been, employed, by The Pullman Company as a porter operating out of the district of Cleveland, Ohio.
Because The Pullman Company did, under date of June 11, 1946, discipline Porter Bell by giving him an actual suspension of nine (9) days on charges unproved; which action was unjust, unreasonable, and in abuse of the Company's discretion.
And further, for the record of Porter Bell to be cleared of the charges in this case and for him to be reimbursed for the nine (9) days pay lost as a result of this unjust and unreasonable action.
OPINION OF BOARD: Hearing in this case did not support the charges and claim should be sustained.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the carrier and the employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.; and