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Show UNFAIR RATES ARE INVESTIGATED BY COMMISSION The decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in the long-pending freight case, seems to confirm the contention of Southern Sou-thern and Western states that existing ex-isting rates were unduly favorable to the Eastern section of the nation. na-tion. Prescribing a uniform scale of class rates for the entire country, east of the Rocky Mountains, the Commission said that "all of the railroad rates under investigation are found unreasonable and certain cer-tain railroad class rates are unduly un-duly prejudicial." In addition, the Commission said that "as a result of the present pres-ent investigation, the railroad freight classifications are found to be unreasonable and unduly prejudicial preju-dicial as a whole, and to the extent ex-tent that they are not uniform." The conclusions reached by the Interstate Commerce Commission are a condemnation of the railroads rail-roads serving the South and 'the West but it is also a condemnation of the commission, itself. Here is a body which is supposed to function func-tion in an economic field to prevent pre-vent injustice and yet, for years, complaints from the South and West were entirely unavailing. |