( Freight Handlers, Express and, Station Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood, GL-

1. Carrier unjustly dismissed from the service Mr. T. Vice, Valparaiso Operator, Valparaiso, Indiana, as a result of investigation held on April 2, 1975, in which the-transcript failed to support the decision of the Carrier in dism
2. Carrier shall return Mr. Vice to service with all rights unimpaired, and compensate him for all w
OPINION OF BOARD: Claimant admitted to breaking and entering the Material
 Discount Store in Valparaiso, Indiana in the early hours of December 11, 1974, and removing a chair intending it for his owT use. After hearing and investigation Claimant was dismissed from Carrier's service.

 Claimant, through the Organization, seeks reinstatement and compensation for time lost contending th actions warranted dismissal and brought discredit on the Carrier. The Organization further argues th
After a careful review of this record, the Board finds no basis for overturning Carrier's action. It is a universally accepted tenet in the railroad industry and elsewhere that dishonesty is a dismissable offense. Whether or not Carrier's property was involved or that Claimant's action did or did not reflect negatively on Carrier make no difference. Carrier has the right to expect honest employes, and has no obligation to keep those, who by their own admission, are not.



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 the Agreement was not violated.


                    A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Azl 'e~ By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: 'G(/i
 Executive Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th dap of November 1976.

 D=0 u 2 1970

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