Show POINTS COURSE FOR RAIL MEN Rate Group Official Decries Fight Upon Fourth Section Railroad brotherhoods will be performing performing per per- forming a greater public service by working for uniformity in re regulation of ot competitive forms of transportation transports transports- tion Hon than attempting to thwart citizens citizens citi citi- zens zeus of the intermountain country in obtaining and retaining just equitable equitable equitable equit equit- able and nondiscriminatory freight rates This was the declaration of Ernest D. D Salm executive secretary of the Utah Citizens' Citizens Rate association before the board of directors of the group at the Newhouse hotel Wednesday noon Mr Salm Saim said that claims of railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road labor organizations that tonnage tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage will increase and hundreds of unemployed Utah rail men would be given jobs if the long and short haul provision of the fourth section of the theL theL theL L C. C C. C act Is repealed are wholly erroneous He pointed out that on six major I railroads railroad serving Utah tons of or revenue revenue revenue reve reve- nue freight handled increased 38 per percent percent percent cent in 1929 over 1917 when the carriers carriers carriers car car- had fourth section relief In view o of these statistics and I others other it is impossible for tor us to believe believe believe be be- lieve that railroad unemployment Is due to the inability of or their employers employ ers to charge less for longer loncer than for shorter hauls he continued Especially Especially Espe I daily is this true when consideration Is given to the fact tact the same brotherhoods brother brother- hoods offered no such complaint four tour or five years ago when conditions were better Mr Salm said the six railroads handled han dIed tons of ot revenue freight In 1917 when carriers earners had fourth section sec sec- tion ion relief compared with tons in 1929 without this relief |