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Show National Enterprise , June 2 , 1976 Page Three Constitutional Rights End Where OSHA Begins Mention OSHA to any businessman and watch his ire raise. Hes bound to react from mild indignation to uncontrollable rage. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 did more than spawn just another bureaucracy and a thousand osha-cratIt set in motion the machinery to deprive every employer in the United States of property without due process of law. s. Its unconstitutional, said Lorin Martin, candidate for Utah Attorney General. OSHA constitutes the most flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of free government and the U.S. Constitution which guarantees protection of those principles. It is absolutely repugnant to American freedom. Few issues so enrage the former county deputy attorney but his dialogue is peppered with determination to see the law struck down. At first, I couldnt put my finger on exactly why the law made me so uncomfortable. Then a friend complained about the fines assessed to enactments, OSHA is given businessmen by OSHA in- power to write its own laws spectors. I thought, Why, as and standards. The Secretary a prosecutor, am I not bring- of Labor enters them in the Federal Register and within 30 ing these cases to court fines where and penalties are days of publication they have the force of law. Every employer from multinational corporations to mom and pop operations of are reonly one employee quired to comply. (Standards published on May 29, 1971, soon after the Act took effect, numbered 248 larges pages of print.) An army of compliance officers police employers to enforce OSHA standards. Their mission is not so much to correct violations as to catch the employer for violation of ject to review by any court. If the accused wishes to safety and health codes. Unles challenged within 30 contest the fine, he must Continued on page Ten days, the penalty is not sub- - JUST PUBLISHED INVESTING IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST. H ABOUT THE AUTHORS. Candidate for Utah Attorney General, Lorin Martin says OSHA is unconstitutional . legally assessed? So I looked into how the law wras written. And thats where I began to understand. to $10,000. Write Its Own Laws OSHA inspectors levy Under current legislative civil assessments against INVESTING IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST is a new approach to Investment guidance, bringing together In 320 entertaining and readable pages Information indispensible to any businessman interested in this region. Discusses over 200 public companies With over 2 billion shares of stock Over $30 billion annual sales 'Paying over $1 billion annual dividends and Interest the employer committing them, Martin said. They may enter his business without any notice and bring accusations against him for infractions of those standards. 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