Show BARRIERS TO TOI I PROGRESS PROGRESS' NO 7 Material use used in in the me manufacture of shirts overalls and mattresses is shipped to Utah and Pacific coast points from North Carolina and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York points the main distributing center at a cost of 2 a per hundredweight hun hun- I In n a petition railroads have filed with the interstate commerce commerce commerce com com- merce commission seeking to io reduce transcontinental freight rates they propose to make ai a rate of per hundredweight for shipments to the Pacific coast while the rate to in intermediate intermediate intermediate in- in points will remain the tha same as at present If granted the new new petition will have the the- effect of allowing coast manufacturers and jobbers to p purchase a carload of materials materials materials ma ma- cheaper than those in Utah The distributing territory of Utah manufacturers will be narrowed more than square miles resulting re resulting resulting re- re in a reduction of factory output output out out- output put forces of and payrolls according to figures furnished by the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah representing representing rep rep- resenting the transportation committee of the tho Commercial club Utah Must Fight JJ jf r |