| Show SHIPPERS CHARGE DISCRIMINATION Traffic Association of California Presents Case Against Southern Pacific CLAIM LOADING TAX UNFAIR till huh Iii t 11 t lit Cool COlli luCiTe 20 O 1110 Ton Is hi tu to A charge of unfair the tue Southern has hns heart lOdged with the interstate In Situ I 5 0 h by the California State T association a or cOllIng to froni thin California The Tho complaint Willi tva tiled Toes lay b by G J Bradley tn lII or of the tIto who has le be against tho road for tOI some somo I months The rite charges that thal i tho line has been heen imposing IL a loading and unloading charge oC at 20 a 11 ton Ol oil articles while not hot levying the extra tariff on other products The Is to declare the Iho t tax x unfair to 10 order artier It A second complaint III i 1111 0 being bellig In which It will ho alleged that the Iho company has not nol nolt t Len cn to its Ita agreement itt III fruit ta NETS BIG MONEY IO EY rite loadIng charge Is destined to be the tho center or Of as 1111 great fI a contra contro ersy M as is baing over oer the switching fee The Tho loading tax It Is said amounts In th the aggregate to more than fI a year lii In the tho ell city p ot San The Tho traffic ns claims that this excess Is not Imposed on shipments In the but bul that the Southern Pacific has dIrected It particularly against the merchants or of ortho the tho Pacific coast Under tim tho rules rulos of th the tho charge or of 20 cents II a aton ton Is In addition to lu the regular freight taint The Tite company claims that the regular covers merely tim haul and that thal It ts it justified In for Cor loading und unloadinG Shen a merchant loads his cars on own IndustrIal track ho he Is of course exempt from thIs charge but who ho he loads londs on the tho campans tracks 01 from the tho sheds ho he is subjected to the tho nt fee Shippers claim that the they are alO dented denied the tho privilege of unloading or loading hooting their own on on the railroads tracks and are thus forced to pay the tee In order to got get theIr goods or 01 to them out EXE EXEMPT are said to ho ox cx empl from COm this rule Iulo Cartne salmon which Is handled almost exclusively by the Alaska Packers association a Is alleged Is loaded lund without I extra fruit Is sub jelt 11 UI J tho tariff Is a phase of at the tho business which affect near nearly eel every shipper on the coast the Ihl outcome will bF b with dEt deop Interest |
