PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 _TO
 DISPUTE: and
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
 STATEMENT 1. The dismissal of Crane Operator A. R.
 _OF
 CLAIM: Booker was without just and sufficient cause
 and unduly severe.
 2. Carrier shall reinstate claimant with all
 benefits and privileges of Rule 27(f).
 FINDINGS: The evidence establishes that claimant charged
 food, telephone calls and lodging to a Company
 credit card without authorization. In doing
 so, he was in flagrant violation of verbal and
 written instructions that had been issued to
 him and other employes by Carrier.
 While we do not find that claimant actually in-
 tended to defraud Carrier, we are not persuaded that this Board
 can require Carrier to retain him in its employ in the light of
 this record. No sound excuse has been given for his breach of the employment relationship, a breach that we regard as very serious.

 AWARD:

 Claim denied.

 Adopted at Louisville, Kentucky, T%-a4 4, ;7,1980 .

;ton, Chairman

 Employe Memb&r