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Show Increases by the eastern trunk lines, dwelling on the discriminatory phase of the raftroad plan to net the alleged al-leged needs for more freight revenue rev-enue Henry C. Barlow of Chicago, a director di-rector of the Chicago as.-uciatlon of commerce and for twenty years experienced ex-perienced In railroad butinoss, testified testi-fied that the class rate between New York and Chicago were unreasonable end that the proposed advances were not fairly distributed. He said the railroad plan put the entire increase ru only ten per cent of the frleght tannage, while the pretext of meeting meet-ing wage Increase-it applied to 100 per cent of all tonnage. He said that substantially S.l per c-nt of the total Increase would be on class rates and ilfteen per cent on commodity rates- His contention was that the big shippers would not bear as much of the burden as the small shippers and that the shippers under class rates during the past decade had contributed their full share of the proposed pro-posed increased rates. INVESTIGATING RATE ADVANCES i , Washington, Nov. 2'. Kxpert freight tarlft testimonies featured today's to-day's sessions of the Inlerta:c- Commerce Com-merce commission, which is Investi- gating the propowj advances in rate otticinl ciiibsltlcatlou territory. Several of the witnesses told In de-lad de-lad of the elfect of these fccheduleJ |