Show CANADIAN ROADS TO RAISE Shippers to Pay Increased Wages of I Railway Men I Vancouver B C Jan GIn order to meet the Increased cost of operation the Canadian railways have decided < to follow the action of the American railways = rail-ways and advance freight t rates from manufacturing and seaboard points It Is learned that action to that end will be taken at an early date at a meeting of freight traffic managers of the different roads interested It is authoritatively au-thoritatively stated that all the Canadian Cana-dian roads will join in raising the tariffs Tariffs all along the line will he subjected sub-jected to a raise of from 2 to 15 per cent Ion I-on present rates As an instance It may be stated that the Increase on iron commodities will he 10 per cent In deciding de-ciding to raise the freight tariffs the railroads have been actuated by the necessity of meeting the Increased cost of operation which has been brought about in nearly all Instances by the railroad employees demanding and securing se-curing higher wages for their labor Forced to pay out hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars because of increase In the wages of employees the railroads must needs recoup themselves J |