The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-28
RATE REDUCTIONS
 FROM MEMPHIS
 ID BIRMINGHAM
Traffic Bureau Wins Case. Means a Great Saving to the Wholesalers of
 Birmingham

Substantial reduction in class rates from Memphis to Birmingham have been ordered by the interstate com merce commission effective on or before July :.
 Many tens of thousands of dollars will be saved Birmingham merchants yearly through this action. It wall affect the movement of grain and grain products, meat products, food and food products, flour. cotton seed, hay, mixed feed and many other artt- eles coming here by car loads from the great western producing sections such as Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago Des Moines Ottawa and St. Louis. Memphis is the gateway for these products southbound and they will all take the reduced rates hereafter
 Birmingham Traffic Bureau con- dueted this fight and has won hands down. o. l.. Bum. general manager of the bureau, wrote the complaint and presented the briefs before the in- terstate commerce commission. The decision removes the last discrimina- ton against Birmingham in the way of freight rates.
 The Traffic Bureau contended that rates from Memphis to Birmingham should be the same as from Birming- ham to Memphis. They were and are higher The interstate commerce commission has ordered that rates from Memphis to Birmingham shall not be higher than those from Bir- mingham to Memphis. which means that they are to be the same after July ', when the order goes in effect.
 Substantial Reduction
 Present rates and new ones on the different classes from Memphis to Birmingham are and will be as fol- lows:
 First class-Present rate, st.S6ts will be SLIP, a reduction of 23h cents.
 Second class-Present rate, s1.1s,a; will be .96Is a reduction of 16 cents.
 Third class--Present rate, 95k; will be .S5. reduction of 10M cents.
 Fourth class--Present rate, .Si E will be Fl is, a reduction of 10 cents.
 Fifth class-Present rate. .65 ia will be .5s. reduction of 7iS cents
 Sixth class-Present rate, .53; will be .4s, reduction of 5 cents.
 Class A-Present rate, .87lk; will be .S21s a reduction of cents.
 Class B-Present rate, .50. will be 39 8 reduction of il cents.
 Class C-Present rate. .36 will be 80 reduction of cents.
 Class D-Present rate, 80; will be .27, reduction of 3 cents.
 Food products and packing house products take the class B rate. Grain and grain products, hay, feed and feed products, cotton seed, mixed feed and the like take the class D rate. Flour takes the class c rate.
 It is easily seen that the saving on these heavy products will be large one.
 Nashville Ruling
 The Traffic Bureau regards this ruling as of equal importance to that which they secured last year when the fictional river rates were taken from Nashville and the first class all- rail rate from New York was raised from $i.65 to s2l0, the Birmingham rail and water rate via Savannah and Brunswick. The nitrate rate to Rir- mingham remains at $2.1S1a, but Bir- mingham has rate of Sf.75 from the east via the Mallory and Warrior barge lines.
 Order of the interstate commerce commission in this case reads:
 Order of Commission
 "Defendants Frisco and other road9 participating in the movement from Memphis to Birmingham) are hereby notified and required, on or before July [. 1922, upon notice to this commission and to the general P0BiAN " iiOA ANSs llal oN diSo lAliu5 and posting in the manner prescribed. and thereafter to maintain and apply class rates from Memphis to Bir- mingham which shall not exceed those contemporaneously in effect from Birmingham to Memphis
 Great Victory
 Tt is a great victory" said MT. Bum, but only what we were en- titled to. There was no Justice in having one set of rates from Blrming- ham to Memphis and higher set of rates from Memphis to Birming- ham,"
 C. F. Jones. secretary of the Traffic Bureau, said: "The decision wipes out discrimination at Ohio river crossings and 1 look for the ultimate effect of the decision to become ap- plicable also to Louisville. Cairo and Cincinnati. The new rates mean the saving of tens of thousands of dol lars a year on the heavy grain and products and food and food products movements into Birmingham from western producing centers."