(Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and ( Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, ( Express and Station Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

(a) The Carrier assessed excessively harsh discipline when they dismissed Claimant Frank R. Tillett from service as a result of investigation or hearing held on April 13, 1976.

 (b) Claimant Tillett be restored to service with all rights unimpaired.

 OPINION OF BOARD: Claimant had been in Carrier's service about twenty-one
 years. On April 7, 1976, he was assigned to an Extra
 Lift Truck Operator position at Carrier's Merchandise Pier, Newport News,
 Virginia, hours 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight.

 On April 8, 1976, he was notified to attend an investigation scheduled for 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 13, 1976, on charge of:



The investigation was held as scheduled. A copy of the transcript of the investigation has been made a part of the record. There was substantial evidence adduced at t claimant, in support of the charge. On April 21, 1976, claimant was notified of his dismissal from service.

 The Board has carefully reviewed the entire record and finds that none of claimant's substantive procedural rights was violated.

 It is a generally accepted tenet in the railroad industry that dishonesty is a dismissal offense. Long service does not mitigate the seriousness of such an offense.
                      Docket Number CL-22780


        FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:


        That the parties waived oral hearing;


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

                            By Order of Third Division


        ATTEST: Executive Secretary


        Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 31st day of March 1980,