The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-06-19
HIGH POINT MANUFACTURERS WIN
FREIGHT RATE VICTORY

FREIGHT MlE NIlOkY
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rules That Railroads Charges
on Glass From Toledo Are Is
Cents Hundred Too Much-Says
High Point Is Unjustly Discrim-
mated Against"
Washington, D. c.. June 14.-One
of what is hoped to be a string of
victories for North Carolina people
against unjust freight rates was an
nounced by the Interstate Commerce
Commission today. The ruling of
the commission showed that for
three or four years the Standard
Mirror Company and the Snow Lum-
Der Company, of High Point, and
Fred Ecker. mirror manufacturer,
have been forced to pay from Is to
IS cents a hundred pounds too much
on shipments of glass from western
cities, and this too i'm spite OF the
fact that more glass is being ship
ped to High Point than to any other
southern point.
The commission agrees that the
rates are discriminatory, as compar-
ed to Virginia cities. and orders re-
paration from the Pennsylvania and
Southern railroads, defendants in
the complaint.
Ratec Unreasonable
The commission says in it's ruling
that any rates above 40 cents
hundred on window and rolled glass
from Pittsburg and vicinity to High
Point, and So cents for plate glass,
are unreasonable. The mirror com
panies paid 81 cents on window
glass and SO cents on plate glass.
The commission says that any rate
over 641a cents from Toledo on plate
class is unreasonable. The COM
panies hava been paying 70H. The
companies demanded reparation on
a much lower scale, fixing damages
from the Pittsburg district on plate
glass at $17,S294O and from the
same place on cheaper glass at ST.,
3O454. Not this much will be re-
covered, but there will be a consider
able rebate coming as soon as the
correct amount is figured out on the
basis of the commissions ruling.
Rates Discriminatory
The commission speaks of the
discrimination as follows:
1T must be admitted that calm
look at the map of the Southern
Railway in the record in the light of
all the testimony shows that High
Point is unjustly Disseminated
against through the rates complain =
ed of. We are unable to justify the
rates of 40, SO and 70K cents from
Toledo. From any point of view
these rates are out of harmony with
the rates in effect to points with
which High Point is in competition.
What is to Follow?
The fact that High Point is only
one of the many towns in North
Carolina which is being discrimin-
ated against, particularly in favor
of Virginia cities. leads one to bell
eve that the commission will decide
many cases in the next few months
in favor of Carolina shippers. Com
missioner McChord wrote the opin-
jon in the case just described, and
he pointed out in that the fact that
through these unjust restrictions
the market of the High Point manu-
facturers has been gradually restrict
ed until it had become impossible
for them to compete fairly with other
manufacturers in what should be
their field.
Every discrimination in the hun
dreds being practiced against North
Carolina cities makes it all the hard !
er for North State products to find
market outside the State, and in
many cases outside manufacturers
can ship goods into the State cheap
er than the home people can manu-
facture them if part of the materials
have to be shipped from somewhere
else.
Another Case
The Eugene Schafe Regelman
Company, of New York, which oper-
ates mines and mining properties,
alleges in a complaint before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
that overcharges have been made
on the shipments of garnet between
Murphy, N. c., and Norfolk, to the
amount of $4128.
HIGH POINT ELATED
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