C AWARD N0. 40
 0 MU DOCKET NO:. CL-9005
 P CASE N0. 41
 Y Sal FILE R-51-7.3.27
 BRC FILE 26-157
 SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTPMNT N0. 169

 PARTIES) The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks TO ) DISPUTE) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

 OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood:

 That Mr. C. B. Westerman, Clerical employee in the Office of Auditor of Freight Accounts at Tyler, Texas, be restored to service with seniority anal vacation rights unimpaired and compensated for wage loss suffered from September 2, 1955, or date removed, until lie is restored.

 FINDINGS: Claimant here was disciplined for failing to protect his job. The
 evidence at the investigation developed that claimant had gotten drunk
 and had gotten incarcerated in the city jail and was unable to protect his job at
 the time his job went to work.

 There is reasonable evidence to support the awarding of the severe discipline against the employee, but the claimant as a man with some twenty-five years service vrith the Company and twelve years seniority and having been out of service some nineteen months_ the Board is of the op~nion that the discipline assessed against him has served its purpose and that this is sufficient discipline under all the facts and circumstances in this case and he should be reinstated on a leniency basis.

 AWARD: Claim disposed of in keeping with the above Findings.


~sl ~l. E. Straubinger lsl L. C. Albert
 W. E. Straubinger, Employee Member L. C. Albert, Carrier Member

 Tyler, Texas April 30, 1957