PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 DI37UTE: and
 Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company
 STATEMENT Claim by Machine Operator Wendell M. Rattey for
 CLXTM: reinstatement and compensation for all wages and
 benefits lost since November 8, 1978.
 FINDINGS: Claimant, a machine operator with three years
 seniority, was dismissed for (1) striking a fellow
 employe with a club and (2) refusing to follow In
 structions to leave Railroad property after that
 incident. Carrier's findings are supported by sub
 stantial, though controverted, evidence consisting
 of testimony by Trackmen Zucco, Johnson and McVaught
 as to the first count and by Supervisors Lilley and
 Yaros as to the second.
 It was not prejudicial error for Carrier to bar
 claimant from Company property even if his reason for entering the
 property was to obtain the names of witnesses. He as well as his
 Organization had orderly means. at their disposal for locating wit
 nesses and preparing for trial. Nor is the supervisor's failure to
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 give claimant a reason for ordering him off the property a ground for setting aside the dismissal. The proper course was for claimant to comply with instructions immediately and, if he considered them defective, to test their propriety subsequently through the grievance machinery of the Agreement.
 Dismissal is not excessive discipline in the pre
 sent situation. i
 AWARD: Claim denied.



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