Show e GUN IN BATTLE FOR FAIR FREIGHT t RATES TO BE FIRED FR FRIDAY WAY I I A J IN TA TARIFFS lff SOUGHT O T Of BY INTERMOUNTAIN AIt INTERESTS T AT HEARING A IN HERE Commercial Club Joins Complainants in Efforts to Establish Justice for Local Manufacturers and Jobbers Case Is Fraught With Greatest Importance to Utah in That Success Will Mean Prosperity for All in Trade Expansion By E. E J. J David Davi B BUOYED up with confidence as a result of recent victories victori s achieved after arduous labor interests representing the people of Salt Lake of Utah and of the intermountain country generally will present a united front tomorrow when the opening gun in the struggle to bring about an adjustment of freight to benefit the West Vest will be fired The ceremony will be performed at the beginning of the hearing arranged by the interstate commerce commission which will consider the complaint of the leaders of industry in this region The hearing will be marked with the intervention of the Salt Lake Commercial club which with other intermountain organizations organizations organizations with the Traffic Service Bureau of Utah leadin leading for the complainants will petition for an adjustment in the tariffs The Traffic Service bureau will be represented by Stephen H. H Love Stefhen president W. W S. S McCarthy vice president and II I. V. manager manage x X J. 41 xIt RATES ARE ALTOGETHER TOO HIGH It has long been considered that the freight rates from the East to Utah and intermountain points compared to the rates to the Pacific coast are altogether too high and with a view to remedying affairs which have always acted to the detriment of this territory the complaint was filed With the complainants obtaining the ends sought sought- a greater and better Salt Lake City will vill be the outcome It will vill mean that more manufactories will be enabled to establish here while thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of more men will be given work This naturally will result in a considerable influx and will aid in increasing the city and states state's population and will bring the greatest possible e benefit UNFAIR TARIFFS HOLD BACK INDUSTRIES It is a well known fact that on account of more advantageous rates in other parts of the country manufacturers have passed up Utah and the intermountain country when looking for sites forthe forthe for forthe the establishment of industries With the complainants succeeding succeeding succeeding succeed succeed- ing all this will be changed Shippers and business men are well aware that a few cents additional per hundred pounds of freight makes the difference between profit and loss to their business This will account for forthe forthe forthe the large number of factories which could locate here if the rates were just being located in other centers Proposed rates to be effective here her have been compiled complied by Mr They are founded on a plan of or gradIng gradIng grading grad grad- ing on all classes s of ot freight and com com- For instance It Is Ia proposed that the rates to Utah from New York and Pittsburg shall be 86 per cent of ot the rates on the same me classes and commodities from the same points of ot origin to the Pacific coast from Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago to Utah 81 per cent of or the rat rates from Chicago to the coast from the the- Missouri river 73 per cent and from Denver Den 68 per cent CASE OF INJUSTICE At pre present ent there are figures which show ahoy that the average car mile revenue revenue reve reve- nue nue of or the carriers Is in greater to Utah than to the Pacific coast although the distance to the coast is miles miltS greater This 1 Is a clearly a case of or Injustice in injustice injustice In- In justice and discrimination with local interests record recorded as the victims The exhibits prepared In behalf of ot tho the complainants to show how the C Continued on page 8 READJUSTMENT I Continued from page 1 1 freight rate schedule affects local I manufacturers jobbers and others furnish a formidable array of facts I which will stand against any and all protests that might be offered by the railroads against an adjustment Inthe in inthe inthe the rates The hearing will bring to a climax a fight which has extended for more than ten years A petition was vas filed I with the railroad administration In InJune inJune inJune June 1918 asking that the rates to Utah should be considerably lower I than to the Pacific coast The petition petition petition peti peti- tion was vas referred to the San Francisco Fran Fran- deco cisco and Portland district freight committees of the tho railroad administration administration adminis adminis- to work out a plan for tor the readjustment to distance the rates per ton-mile ton to more rapidly decline for the longer distances It is the plan for the adjustment of rates that forms part of ot the comPlaint complaint com com- Plaint which Is directed against about railroads it having been decided that before the plan is submitted to Washington that a hearing should take tako place in Salt Lake hence the hearing which opens tomorrow |