Parties Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
 to and
 Dispute Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
 Statement
 o`_ Claim: Carrier violated the effective agreement on January 6, 1978
 by arbitrarily and unfairly dismissing Claimant L. C. Truss
 from the service of the railroad for alleged violation of
 Maintenance of Way Rule "K°. Cl aimant Truss shall be
 restored to service with all seniority rights and other
 rights reinstated and unimpaired, also compensated for all
 lost time from January 6, 1978 until he is actually returned
 to service of the Carrier.
 Findings: The Board, after hearing upon the whole record and all evidence,
 finds that the parties herein are Carrier and Employee within the meaning
 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, that this Board is duly constituted
 by Agreement dated January 23, 1978, that it has jurisdiction of the
 parties and the subject matter, and that the parties were given due
 notice of the hearing held.
 Claimant was suspended from service, on December 16, 1977,
 as a result of his insubordinate and contemptuous conduct towards his
 supervisor. Claimant was charged, under date of December 21, 1977 and
 advised to attend a formal investigation for the purpose of "determining
 whether you harassed, threatened or used abusive language towards Foreman
 Howard Jackson on Thursday, December 15, 1977."
 As a result of that investigation, Carrier concluded that
 Claimant was. guilty as charged and he was dismissed from service as
 discipline therefor.
 The Board finds that Claimant was accorded a fair hearing.
 There was sufficient evidence adduced to support Carrier's
 conclusion as to Claimant's culpability in the violation of Rule R in that
 he harassed, threatened and used abusive language to his section Foreman
 Howard Jackson on December 15, 1977.
 The Board finds that in the circumstances that the discipline
 assessed was reasonable and warranted. Claimant was clearly abusive,

quarrelsome and disobedient. Carrier properly adjudged him to be contumacious. His conduct was such that it cannot be condoned. The Board is without alternative other than to deny the claim.

 Award: Claim denied.

 . P. Paloni, Employee Member M a , Carrier Member

                    hur T.. Van Wart, Chairman and Neutral Member


                    issued at Falmouth, Massachusetts, September 26, 1979.