MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY


STATEMENT
 OF CLAIM: Claim of the Committee that:

            1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement

            when Roadway Machine Operator C. R. Brass was

            unjustly dismissed by notice dated March 2,

            1979.


            2. Claimant Brass shall be reinstated with

            seniority rights, pass privileges, vacation

            rights unimpaired, as well as his restoration

            of all other rights and privileges accruing

            to him, which would have been his under the

            provisions of various agreements if he had not

            been dismissed from the service of the Carrier

            March 2, 1979, and be paid for loss of wages

            suffered from March 2, 1979, claim to run con

            currently until Mr. Brass is returned to his job.


FINDINGS: The evidence adduced at the investigation
 sustains the charge and, since the claimant was
 previously disciplined for the same offense the
 penalty of dismissal is not excessive.
 AWARD: Claim denied.

            SPECIAL,BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 279


              Dudley E, /Whiting - Ch ' an


~A. Chris tie - Employe Member L. D. Brown - Carrier Member

 Dallas, Texas
 September 19, 1980
 File 247-5783