Award No. 32
 Case No. 45
 Docket No. MW 80-33
 Parties Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
 to and
 Dispute Southern Pacific Transportation Company
 (Texas and Louisiana Lines)
 Statement 1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement when Machine
 of Operator Michael Pate was unjustly dismissed by letter
 Claim dated December 6, 1979.

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 July 19, 1979, that it has jurisdiction
 of the parties and the subject matter, and that the
 parties were given due notice of the hearing held.
 Claimant, a Machiaer Operator on Extra Gang 50, was
 notified under date of December 6, 1979 by the Regional
 Maintenance of Way Manager, as follows:
 "You are dismissed from the service of the
 Southern Pacific Transportation Company for
 your unauthorized removal of company property,
 which is in violation of Rule 801 of the General
 Rules and Regulations of the General Notice
 effective April 1, 1978, on the Southern Pacific
 Transportation Company which reads in part
 as follows:
 '801. Employees will not be retained


          A hearing was requested and granted and ultimately held January 8, 1980. As a result thereof Claimant was notified that the Carrier's position stated in its letter of December 6, 1979 was sustained.


          There was sufficient evidence adduced at the investigation, including the testimony of Claimant, to support the conclusion reached by Carrier as to his culpability.


          We find nothing in the record to cause a change in the discipline assessed. As pointed out in Public Law Board No. 1925, on this property,


                  "Honesty is a necessary requisite of the employment relationship."


          This Claim will be denied.


Award claim denied.

 M. A. Christie, Employee Member C. B. Goyne, Carrier Member

                        . CC~ ~ r

                            Arthur T. Van Wart, Chairman and Neutral Member


                          Issued at Wilmington, Delaware, April 16, 1981.