STATEMENT OF CLAIM: * * * for and in behalf of B. C. Woodruff, who is now, and for several years past has been, employed by The Pullman Company as a porter operating out of the Chicago Northern District.
Because The Pullman Company did, under date of June 23, 1950, take disciplinary action against Porter Woodruff by giving him an actual suspension of ten (10) days, which action; was unjust, unreasonable, and in abuse of the Company's discretion, and based upon charges unproved.
And further, for the record of B. C. Woodruff to be cleared of the charges in the instant case, and for him to be reimbursed for the ten (10) days pay lost as a result of this unjust and unreasonable action.
OPINION OF BOARD: Based upon all the facts and circumstances in this particular case, the Board is not disposed to disturb 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 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
That under the facts and circumstances as disclosed by the record in this case we find no basis for disturbing the action of the Carrier.