PASSING IT ON.
RAILROADS INORBASE FARES. ' . July 21. My. E. T. Whiter, representing, four hundred railroads, announces that it will -need an immediate increase of 18 per cent, m freight rates to meet the wage addition of 600,000,000 dollars. There are 1,800,003 workers on. the pay-roll, which n.ow amount^ to 5>344,000,000S > 344,000,000 dollars. » The railroads have already made plans .to pass the -burden' on to the consumer.—A. aji^J^CA^^
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15274, 23 July 1920, Page 3
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