Show UTAH SHIPPERS PROTEST BERTH RATE HATE INCREASE Claim Is Discredited T Th Thit it t Pullman Company Need Nee dp More Revenue The Utah Shippers Traffic 1 association ocia- ocia tion Monday Monday- protested protested- to the public utilities commission against the Pullman Pullman Pull Pull- man company's petition to raise raie the rates on Pullman berths bertha when one Is occupied by a n second passenger J. J S. S Earley Ealey executive secretary of or orthe the association en entered red the protest and announced that he also represented represented the Utah Manufacturers' Manufacturers as association association association as- as the Utah Manufacturers Manufacturers- league the Utah Federation Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of or Women's Clubs the Box Elder EIder Commercial club and the Mt ML Pleasant Lions club CLAIMS REVENUE REVEN NEEDED The Pullman company had filed Its petition asking that the Intrastate Intrastate Intra Intra- state rates on berths be e raised 20 p per percent percent r cent when two persons occupied the space The organization based bed its contention on the need of revenue e the extra cost of of- the extra service and the custom of at hotels in charging extra for two The company also stated that be because because be- be cau cause of the declining passenger traffic traffic fic lie it Is impossible for it to cut overhead overhead over over- head at the the- rate business is falling off Mr Earley took exception to almost th the entire petition He declared that at the present time time- one person was paying the full rate for a berth and that the Pullman Pullman- company should reduce the rates for one person rather rath rath- er than try to Increase them for two H He st stated ted als also that the Pullman company enjoyed one of at the best 1 fi financial financial fi- fi i conditions of or any any- company in Utah and wa was not In need of help He further urged that surcharges be trimmed 50 per cent FIGURES FIGURES- DIS DISCREDITED The Pullman attorneys declared that the added cost to the citizens of or orthe the state would only be about a year since most of the intrastate traffic Is single pase passenger 1 ger er anyway Mr Earley would not these accept figures figures' and said that he- he stood upon pon the principle he had already expounded expounded ex ex- ex pounded that the one passenger was paying all all- the bill He cJ cited d contracts between the Pullman company and the railroads and sought to prove his points by these contracts Mr Earley also clu charged the Pullman people with discriminating dis criminating g against re regular pa passengers passengers engers en- en gers and favoring persons with government government government gov gov- requests The Pullman case cd ase d by Ralph S Stewart wart Salt Sal Lake attorney and E. E P. P Burke general passenger agent and L. L M M. Bradish controller Mr Burke and Mr Bradish are from Ch Chicago cago |