Show RATES TO BE mm INCREASED RAISE FOUND NECESSARY IN ORDER TO MEET HIGHER COST OF FUEL AND WAGES railways of nation will spend this year more foi foe wages than last year and vast sums for fuel and equipment washington estimates made monday by U railroad administration officials official nill indicate e that an increase of at ae least a s t 25 pr per cent in freight and passenger rates will be necessary this i year to meet the higher cois li 0 of f fuel fuei wages 1 equipment and other ope operating 1711 expenses now set nt at befi between veen CM and more lhnn last year Recommend recommendation ailo n that rates be raised by approximately this percentage ha has been made by director general me adoo by his advisers he Is 18 expected to act within the next nest six weeks and to put increases anto effect immediately ShIp shippers perv will be permitted to appeal to the Infer interstate state commerce commission under the railroads act and final decision will be with president wilson such an increase ns as la Is proposed will be the biggest in the history of american railroads as the percentage is larger than tiny any ever sought by affie railways under private management and would apply alike to the entire country both chiss and commodity schedules would be affected passenger fares would be raised un dor der the plan suggested to about 3 cents cent s a mill from froin the existing general rate of a lutle less leas than aa 21 2 cents the proposed increases it Is estimated would yield about in freight and in passenger revenues it Is roughly estimated by railroad administration officials that the roads this year will spend between and more for wages than afian last year between and more for coal and between and more for cars locomotives rails ties terminal facilities barges for inland waterways find and other supplies and equipment these figures may lie be lowered by later developments but of who have studied the situation closely are inclined to believe they arc more likely to prove higher the estimate of increased sed wages lii 18 based on the p probability rob ability that the dl i doctor dector general will n approve a general scheme of higher pay for workmen lu in accordance with the railroad wage commissions recommendations which called for an addition of to the OW payroll of last year |