PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 _TO . .
 DISPUTE: and
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
 STATEMENT 1. The dismissal of Track Repairmen J. P.
 _OF
 CLAIM: Sanders, S. T. Rubenacker, L. G. Gaff and S.
 L. Dodson was without just or sufficient cause
 and was extremely disproportionate to the of
 fense with which charged.
 2. Claimants Sanders, Rubenacker, Goff and
 Dodson shall be reinstated to service with
 seniority rights unimpaired and with pay for
 all time lost.
 FINDINGS: Claimants, trackmen with from two to five years
 service, were dismissed from Carrier's service
 for violating Rule G's prohibition against the
 use and possession~of intoxicants or narcotics.

There is substantial credible evidence in the record that. a search made of claimants' lockers in the Camp car reserved for their use by Carrier as away-from-home accommodations established that a beer bottle containing marijuana and . three codeine pills as well as a marijuana smoking pipe were found in Dodson's locker, marijuana seeds and packages of smoking papers in Sanders' locker, a marijuana butt in Goff's locker and a partially filled bottle of whiskey in Rubenacker's locker. Numerous beer cans, some of which were full, were also found in the car. The investigation of the car was prompted by the discovery of the beer cans and marijuana or hashish pipe hanging on the inside of a window of the camp car.
 Carrier's findings that the lockers in which these.items were found were assigned to and used by claimants is supported by the evidence and we find claimants explanations as to absence from the cars during the material times unpersuasive. We also are unimpressed by evidence that Dodson's-dentist . had suggested the use of codeine to ease the pain resulting from dental work. The prohibition against possession of intoxicants or narcotics is a reasonable exercise of managerial authority, particularly in view of Carrier's enormous and farflung responsibilities. -

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