Show A SAMPLE OF WHAT I E FIGHT lIT CAN CANDO DO EASTER RAILROADS SEE GREAT T LIGHT Announced ced Freight Rate Advance Advance Ad Ad- vance From Atlantic Coast I Ito to Chicago Abandoned Business men nen of Utah who are waging wag wag- a l ing g a war for just fret freight ht rates for Utah through the Commercial club traffic bureau were encouraged la last t night by hy tho the report that the much much- talked of laU ot ed-ot advance in freight rates from the Atlantic coast to Chica Chicago o common points would not go Into ef effect ef- ef r- r feet feet- Their encouragement came from the demonstration of what organized effort on the part of or shippers can cal accomplish accomplish ac ac- ac- ac rather than any prospect for decent treatment nt on the part of f IC until the railroads Vail rail the railroads for or Utah roads roas are arc forced to grant grunt justice through organized action on the par part of ot shippers which it may mu bo be necessary to back by legislation The TIle history of or the proposed an ad H Hin in lii freight rates by ly the Eastern roads led lJ by the Now New York Central lines Jines I i- i recalled by y the abandonment of ot tho the proposition by y the railroads railroad It ft was heralded et from railroad sources a n few tow months ago that an adVance advance ad ad- vance of at least leapt 10 per pr cent In freight rates must be made or ur the wages of It ItI Th Tb I railroad mu must t be cut I first l sign o of a break In the plans of tho the railroads was the admission lon that th the tho proposed a advances vances would amount to only about 3 per cent Next ext came th the announcement made by hv W. W C. C Brown of If the New York YOlk Central news of o which which reached reached Salt Lake shippers yesterday yes yes- saying that tho railroads had hall hadnot hadnot not yet yel finished checking the proposed advances at and could not present them to tn the thc shippers for a a. conference The way members of oC the lie truffle bureau view these developments in the East was expressed b by a n Salt Snit Lake shipper yesterday as ns being an nn example example exam exam- pie of what the Utah shippers can cnn do if IC properly organized We c e notice that little was said rf- rf the proposed advance ance in transcontinental rates until the tariff sheets had hall been made molle out said a member of or the traffic bureau That Thatis l Is j Just an example of the wn way the Western shipper is h treated Wo We have ha been taking what the tho railroads would give and liking it for 01 to o lon long that thal W we ve are ure only considered as us easy eusy ea mone money for tho the freight rate r. maki-r. Just imagine Ima imagine im Im- im- im a agine railroad rate rale makers malters In Utan Utai l calling for a conference of shippers before announcing an advance Sounds Hl like hike e a jol Joke c doesn't It Instead nt of f calling n for a n conference the railroads do Ilo a n little rough work once every e cr two i years cars and make up what their gum gumshoe gumshoe gumshoe shoe man spends In Iii th the next three years |