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Show RAILROADS ASK UTAH INCREASE Hearing Date Fixed by Commission Reopening of a battle over freight ratea on coal shipped Intrastate In Utah loomed Tuesday, when rail carriers of tha state asked the public service commlaslon to apply to intrastate in-trastate irafflc reosnt Interstate increase in-crease (ranted by the Interstate I commerce commission. Ths state commission set November Novem-ber 26 as ths data for bearing, conditional con-ditional upon railroads not seeking to apply the Increase to coal ahipped intrastate. If railroads persist In seeking such application, no hearing will be held, the commission said. Stipulation CI ted Commissioner said railroads were granted Increased ratea last September Sep-tember In Intrastate coal shipments upon stipulation no more Increases on intrastate coal tariffs would be asked or a year. On the other hand, railroads Tuesday claimed they were not barred from asking yet higher ratea for handling coal Intrastate. ' In September, intrastate coal rates were ralaed from $1.70 to 1.M a ton and now the carrier want them boosted to 12.10, a rat charged before the fl.TO tariff was filed to meet truck competition. How the controversy over the ssserted stipulation not to seek higher rates on coal would be settled, was not known Tuesday. To Oppoee Boost After the ICC recently granted interstate Increaaea, amounting to S44.000.000 nationally, railroads said the boost was not enough and sought another IS per cent Increase. The Utah commission will oppoee this requested It cent boost, aa far aa -Utah ia concerned, aaid Ward C. Holbrook. commiasion 'chairman, pointing out that Utah sgg shippers, for Instance, now pay 30 cents per 100 pounds on eggs shipped to New York, under the increases recently granted by the ICC They ahip 12.000 carload yearly, Mr. Holbrook aaid. |