AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
TALK OF HIGHER BATES, ' A DILEMMA. USERS MUST PAY MORE Oil WORKERS .) : RECEIVE LESS. (BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT.) 1 . . New York, July 13. 1( j A riso in railway rates- threatened. in ;Q States east of the Mississippi River and north ir of tho Potomac and Ohio . Rivers. . This dovolopment is gravely disturbing manufacturing interests, in America. r _ . Mr. Wm. C. Brown (senior vice-president of the New York Central linos, and formerly general manager of a number, of .inter-State linos) lias declared that the riso in railway ' fates is tho only alternative to a decreaso ' in wages, which is out of. tho question. • 0 Proin the river boundaries given in the cablegram, it would appear that. the zone within . which _ the higher railfcav rotes • are spoken of begins on the south with the States of U- -- linois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryd land, and extends north,to th,e Canadian boundary. "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 7
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151AMERICAN RAILWAYS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 7
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