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Show RATE PARLEYS j ON AT CAPITAL Canners Participate in Re duction, Which Will Ben-fit Ben-fit Entire West. Preparatory to a genera; scaling down of railroad freight ivi'.b 8 hear- Ing Is now under way befoie the in-j tcrstate commerce commission In j Washington, according to word rc-j reived here today by n. embers of the Utah Canners association, who arej In Ogden attending the twelfth annual an-nual convention The railroads arc now being heard and later the shippers ship-pers will present their side of the question. The canners and Wholesale grocers are scheduled to appear al out January 1 j INNERS i UCE P iRT The National Canners' association, through Its traffic committee, of which Charles G. Summers, Jr.. ofi Baltlmoie. Is chairman, will participate partici-pate In the hearings to ask that the, present freight rates on canned goods' bo reduced. The canners will show! that every single factor in the cost j of canned foods has materially declined de-clined while freight rates have materially ma-terially Increased, according to A. S Daggett, local representative of the; National Canners' association. Tiny hope to develop the fact that while the apparent Increase In freight rates were only 26 per cent on June 26, '18. and an average of about 33 per cent on August 26, 1920, yet these increases in-creases pyramid, due to the Increased freight on all raw supplies bought by the canners. The presentation will not only take into consideration the rates on the outgoing finished products prod-ucts but will have to do with the rates on Incoming supplies such as cans, tlnplate, boxes, labels and other equipment equip-ment used in the canning Industry. MEETING HELD. Preliminary to their appearanco before be-fore the Intersteate commerce commission, com-mission, which It Is thought vill be early In January, there was an Im-i-irtanl meeting of the canners traffic traf-fic committee in Washington at which ' representatives from all sections of the country were in attendance. Ways and means of combating the excessive freight rates were outlined. Utah, as well as other western states, would be materially benefited If the reductions are granted. It Is ealrt In a communication to the Itah I Canners' association relative to the rates, Mr, Summers says In part: ft siXKss INJURED. "The canners of the country belie, e their business Is seriously Injured b the present high freight rates. To ' the present rate of something !il I 1C6 per cent on hauling food actually j canned there must bo added another 160 "per cent due to the freight on I raw materials, surh as cans lumber i for packing boxes, etc. "I do not believe the people appreciate appre-ciate the volume of the canning business busi-ness or what It is worth to the farmer. far-mer. According to recent figures the total pack In 1910 was 166,086.234 leases valued at $837,926,748 That is I something like 50 cans per person pSr I year. I "From that it would appear that canned food Is a necessary factor in our dally life and that the people', would be Interested In a reduction of i the cost of canned foods. whlcTl would j be possible If there were a lower freight rate. "Our idea will be to show by gov- j ernment figures the great volume of the canned foods business which Is understsood by so few We would couple with this a statement that would impress upon all Interested the great amount of money paid to the farmers directly and Indirectly by the canners " |