Railway Co Operation An Investigation of Railway Traffic Associations And a Dis
Railway Co Operation An Investigation of Railway Traffic Associations And a Dis
Charles Souder Langstroth
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The first big pool of which we have any record is that of the lines between Chicago and Omaha, formed in 1870, and it is, therefore, no real inaccuracy to date pooling from that year. The significance of the pool lay in the fact that it gave promise of enabling the railroads to maintain rates. With this hope, our carriers rapidly sought to enforce their agreements by a division of traffic or earnings ; and with this fear, the public at once opposed pooling with a bitterness that would be sur- p...rising did we not know the traditional reliance upon free competition and the peculiar circumstances of Granger days. It was from these circumstances also, that secrecy was no longer possible in any real restraint of interline rivalry. The concentration of popular attention upon the rate question and the marked difference between competitive and non-competi- tive charges, made concealment of an effective agreement practically out of the question. The public had but to notice that rates were raised at a common point, in order to be Co-operation of Competing Lines.
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