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Show LUMBERMEN TO PROTEST I NEW FREIGHT RATE HT. IjOIMS, Feb. 13. Announcement is made that the hardwood manufacturers, wholesaler and retail dealers of St. l"' Memphis and other aouthern rltlea have organised to appear before the Interstate commerce commission here on March 1 to protest agatnet an Increase In freight rates The proposed rate, suspended by tha commission until April 1. Is an tnrraeae of I to 4 eenta a hundred on all hardwood lumber from the aouth to polntb weat of the Mississippi liver. Lumbermen say that th propod rata wonld increase the cost of tuniher to the waetern roneumara 119,000.000 a year. |