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Show Bedding Bill Gives Buyers Fair Shake Called "one of the most unusual un-usual and best handled" pieces of legislation to come before the Utah State House of Representatives, Representa-tives, S. B. 29 walked through the House this week unopposed after having drawn the above statement from Rep. Sheldon R. Brewster, Speaker of the House. "Most regulatory legislation is usually the result of one group trying to regulate another," he said. In thsi case, the men to be regulated are the men who are behind the measure. The state of Utah has had no regulations imposed upon the manufacturers of bedding materials or upholstered uphol-stered furniture. Because of this Utah has been a dumping ground for unscrupulous manufacturers , from other states. "In all my years as a member of the House I have seen many, many, regulatory regu-latory measures come up, but I do not recall ever having seen a better bill than this." The measure makes it mandatory manda-tory for manufacturers of bedding bed-ding and upholtered items to clearly mark with a red tag the presence of any used or reprocessed repro-cessed materials used in the construction con-struction of the item. During discussion of the bill, it was revealed re-vealed that Utah buyers were unwittingly not only paying new prices for camoufaged used or reprocessed materials but in many cases for unsanitary materials. ma-terials. "An attractive piece of material ma-terial can cover any inferior or filthy filling these people want to use. We aren't regulating the method of construction; we are only demanding that these people peo-ple let the public know what it is buying." |
