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Show LIGHTING CODE HAS OPPOSITION Utah Manufacturers' Asso ciation Lodges Protest With Commission SALT LAKE, Mnrch lu. Members of the TTtah Manufacturers' association associa-tion opposed to the issuance of an In-Industrial In-Industrial lighting code by the commission com-mission wero present at a hearing of tho state industrial commission yesterday yes-terday at the capltol. The burden of their remarks was to ;he effect that. Instead of getting protection pro-tection from, the stats' government, the manufacturers are continually being be-ing placed on the defensive. opposition oppo-sition was particularly registered to thi n qulrement proposed of an omer- gency system of lighting, designed to prevent accidents during periods when the regular system might be out of ommisslon. Members of the commission express -led themselves as willing to take into I consideration the wishes of those af- ' feeted ' by the proposed rulings, but ! pointed out that the law requires the I commission to place In effect such 'regulations as may be reasonable, af-j af-j fecting the safety and health of employes. em-ployes. The manufacturers repeatedly re-: re-: ferred to increases In the power rates ordered some time ago by the public utilities commission, and S. M. Barlow Bar-low said that he believed he voiced the i real attitude of the manufacaurers when he said that the ppposition to 'the lighting code arises "out of the strangle hold that the Utah Tower & Llgt company alreadv lias on us.;" Garratl 8 Wilkin said that he believed be-lieved that the object sought by tho commission could bo worked out and that the commission would get what It wonts, and the manufacturers get what they want, by ndoptlng co-operative me: hods, and particularly by a system of education, rather than of enforcement. When the objection of the manufacturers manufac-turers had been hoard, the matter was taken under advisement by the commission. com-mission. The concerns represented were the Davis-Howe, Utah Soap. I'urity P.I-cuit, P.I-cuit, SchrammJohnson Drug. Hemen-way Hemen-way & Moser. the JJarrett. Cudahy Packing company. J. p. Whitaker Cigar. Century Printing. Hewlett Prothers. Vogeler Seed and Produce, People's Sugar. Salt Lake Mattress. Utah ice and Cold Storage, Salt Lake Knitting, (loyal Daking and Salt Lake Iron and Steel companies; the BuilG-lng BuilG-lng Owners and Managers' association: the American Smelting and Refining Walker Prothrs Dry GonrjT I'tih Gas and ('oke, I'tah Copper. Salt Lake Hardware and Cullen Manufacturing companies and the Utah Canners' as-, soclatlon. |