PARTIES TO DISPUTE:





STATEMENT OF CLAIM: * * * for and in behalf of F. I. Howell who was formerly employed by The Pullman Company as a porter operating out of the district of Kansas City, Missouri.


Because The Pullman Company did, under date of April 2, 1946, take disciplinary action against F. I. Howell by dismissing him from the service on charges unproved; which action was unjust, unreasonable, and in abuse of its discretion.


And further, for F. I. Howell to be restored to his former position as a porter in the Kansas City district and for him to be reimbursed for all pay lost by him as a result of this unjust and unreasonable action.


OPINION OF BOARD: The evidence of record discloses no grounds for disturbing the action of the carrier.


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 employe involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe 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


That the evidence of record discloses no grounds for disturbing the action of the carrier.









ATTEST: H. A. Johnson
Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of December, 1947.