Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-01-24 | Page 8 | Pinning Them Down

PINNING THEM DOWN Even Mon Who Sort Newspapers on Special Trains Cannot Eiric Preo. -WASHINGTON". Jan. 28. The Inler-.state Inler-.state Commerce commission In an opinion opin-ion by Commissioner Harlan, holds that men employed by newspapers lo assort newspapers on special train? may not lawfully ho granted transportation. Tho decision follows: "Where Congress has expressly enumerated enume-rated special classes of persons or things nuij us trAirjiijjiuu mm excepted irom tho operation of general provisions In a law this commission cannot enlarge the excepted classes by mere construction. "Held, therefore, thai the so-called 'caretakers' of newspaper companies, whose duty it Is to assort newspapers on special newspaper trains and make thern Into packages for deliveries as the trains arrive at tho several points along tho line of tho run, may not lawfully lie granted the free transportation that is permissible permissi-ble under the act to regulate commerce, to caretakers of certain other kinds of traffic specifically enumerated In the act. "Newspapers' employes cannot lawfully bo carried on special newspaper trains under a commodity rate established for the carriage of newspapers or at any other rate than the one specltled In a regularly schedule of passenger rates."