Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 20 | Utah Shippers to Protest Tariffs

UTAH SUPPERS TO PROM TARIFFS Classifications Are Under Fire at Meeting on Advanced Ad-vanced Rates. Utah shippers took the initiative last niht at a meeting at the Commercial club in an effort to secure a readjustment readjust-ment of freight rates, to the end trial the 25 per cent advance ordered by Director General McAdoo may not be unjust against the consumers of this section of the country, by placing the entire matter in the hands of the traffic bureau of L'tah with instructions to araw up a complaint com-plaint later to be presented to the interstate inter-state commerce commission at Washington. Washing-ton. There wa,i no protest at the meeting against the general advance of 25 per cent on freight ra tea, but the sentiment was general: y expressed that the shipper of T tah are billing to pay the higher tariff and more If called upon by the administration ad-ministration to do eo. The protest waj against the existing commodity and clansl-fi'-aiion rates which for years have been regarded as t. njust ann discrirni natory as against the shippers of L'tah and adjoining w e s t e rn s t ji t e s . it. is planned, as soon as the matter has been put in shaoe by the traffic bureau, with the aid of an ad visor y com ml 1 1 rij ehosen from among the shippers of L'tah, to call a rneding of the Khippers of Idaho, W'Rtcrn Wyoming. Montana and Nevada, that t hev may join in the general protest pro-test to he presented in t he form of a complaint to the InU-rata fe commission. C. B. 1 lawkv. who wnn chosen to act a chairman of the meeting, appointed J. K. r'ooper arid A. J. Bidweil of Ogden and William Uovlan'o of Provo as members mem-bers of a con i ii d Meo of fifteen to acf v. IJ h t iie f ra 'fie burea u In prepa ring I he, complaint. The of her twelve members of the committee will be appointed by Mr. Hawiev v.ifiitn t.ho ne:-:l few dayn. The meeting wax one of the, largest of ' CbjJi shippers tlui! ha'i ever been held In Knit Ivjke.