United labor bulletin., 1910-10-06
BoILERMAkERs' UNION FIGHTS
FREIGHT RATES.
Continued from page H.


which tariffs are hereby referred to and
made a part hereof, being only twenty
five and one-half cents (25hc) in excess
of said rate charged to Denver, Colo
RADIO; and that those defendants which
operate between Denver and Salt Lake
City are now charging for the transpor-
tation of said materials above mentioned
from Denver to Salt Lake City, the sum
of seventy-nine and one-half cents
tT91Gcl per hundred pounds. at car load
rates, minimum car thirty-six thousand
(SG0OO) pounds.
" That the short line distance, in
miles, from Pittsburg to st. Louis is G21,
and from st. Louis to Denver GIG, and
from Denver to Salt Lake City go, and
| from st. Louis to Salt Lake City 1,451;
from Pittsburg to Burlington, Iowa, be-
| ing one of said Mississippi river points,
CG3, and from Burlington to Denver S2S,
and from Burlington to Salt Lake City
| 1928; and the distance between said
other Mississippi river points and Den
yer is practically the same as the dis
tance between Burlington and Denver OF
between ST. Louis and Denver, and the
distance between said other Mississippi
river points and Salt Lake City is practi-
and Salt Lake City or between st. Louis
and Salt Lake City.
VI That the said materials above
mentioned are classified by the defend
ants as fifth class, as shown by said
tariffs and the classifcations of the de-
PENDANTS on file with said commission
as aforesaid, which are hereby referred
to and made a part hereof, and are thus
classed with, and given the same rate
between the points above mentioned as,
other articles of freight, such as glass
bottles, glass in boxes or barrels, canned
goods, sundry chemicals. crockery, cleo
trical apparatus, fruit, glass jars, sundry
groceries, liquors and preserves, which
are much less desirable as freight from
the carriers point of view, in that they
are much more likely to be damaged in
transit, are more bulky, less amount
thereof can be loaded and carried on
single car, and can be carried only in
certain kinds of cars, whereas the iron
and steel materials above mentioned are
practically indestructible, loss of or
damage to them is extremely rare,
very large tonnage thereof can be loaded
and carried on single car, and any style
of car is suitable for their transportation.
|
on file as aforesaid, many articles OF
freight, such as asphalt and asphaltum,
beer, beer packages and empty bottles,
fire brick, broom handles, hard coal, soft
coal, coal tar, coke, emigrant moveables.
fuor spar, pig iron, lead dross. pig lead.
cement roofing, tar, pitch, lime, plaster,
limestone ground, plaster board, mineral
water, ginger ale, root beer, mineral wa
rro seed.
whiting, spelter, sugar, copper pig and
sash and doors, which are much less de-
sirable as freight from the carriers point
of view, are given a much less rate by
defendants for the transportation thereof
from st. Louis and said other Mississippi
river points to Denver, Colorado.
VIII. That, as shown by said tariffs
on file as aforesaid, many classes OF
goods or products manufactured in whole
or in part from the above mentioned ma
terials of iron and steel, such as wrought
iron or steel pipe, welded iron or steel
pipe seamless iron or steel pipe, iron
pipe connections, iron pipe fittings, iron
valves, iron boiler tubes, steel drive well
points, pipe screws, iron or steel poles
for telegraph, telephone and electric
street railways, railway material, track
steel cross ties and turn tables, which
are much less desirable as freight from
the carriers point of view, are carried
by the defendants from ST. Louis and
also said other Mississippi river points
to Denver, Colorado, at a much lower
rate than the materials above mentioned
and out of which they are made.
TX. That, as shown by said tariffs on
file as aforesaid, many articles, such as
ornamental, enameled and common
brick, sewer pipe, clay conduits, granite,
marble, cement, stone and lumber, which
articles are used at Denver, Colorado,
directly in competition with the said ma
terials above mentioned in the construc-
ton of buildings, tanks, pipe lines,
bridges and other structures, are carried
by the defendants from St. Louis and
said other Mississippi river points to
Denver, Colorado, at a much less rate,
although less desirable as freight, from
carriers point of view, than the mate
rials above mentioned.
X That the said rate of seventy-two
cents (72c) from st. Louis, Missouri, and
said other Mississippi river points to
Denver, Colo, is unjust. unreasonable,
exorbitant, excessive, unjustly discrim-
1natOry ana unuuly preJuulCidi " tho
complainant and all others similarly sit
uated at Denver, Colorado. and in viola
ton of said Act to Regulate Commerce
and acts amendatory thereof and supple
mentary thereto.
XI. That by fixing, charging and main
tanning said rates as aforesaid, said de-
PENDANTS are unlawfully and unjustly dis
eliminating in favor of the manufactur-
/ tod
Mississippi river points and east of said
points, and are placing the complainant
and others similarly situated at an un-
just, unfair and unreasonable disadvan-
tage, all in violation of said Act to Reg