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Show TIE UTAH INDEPENDENT October -16, 1970 FOR Utah Senate Race COUNCIL Burton vs. Moss a livable WORLD SUPPORTS Utah's holly contested Senate race is best summarized by the slogans used by the two candidates. Frank Moss Works for You, proclaim the billboards of the two-terDemocratic incumbent. Larry Burton Votes for You, answer the supporters of GOP nominee Lawrence Burton, who has represented the state's 1st Congressional District since 1963. While Moss talks about the federal projects that he labored to obtain, Burton talks about issues and ideology. Burton is running as a staunch conservative, sharply criticizing Moss ultra-libervoting record: his opposition to the ABM, his suggestion that we recognize Red China, his record as an errand labor groups. (The boy for AFL-CIwhich is giving Moss vital financial backing, rates his voting record as 100 per cent For example, the Utah solon actively supported the repeal of Section 14b of the Act, despite the fact that have Utah voters decisively demonstrated their support of right to work. Moss support of compulsory unionism could emerge as a crucial campaign issue. m MOSS way out, ban the bomb, unilateral disarmament and recogA nize Red China group has helped finance Moss during his 1964 campaign and also is helping in the present campaign. This outfit, called the Council For A Livable World" has helped finance liberal candidates such as William Ful-hrigl- it, al out-of-sta- Frank Church, Jacob Javits, Edmund Muskie, Edward Brooke, Ralph Yarborough, Walter Mondale, and others The Council for A Livable World (Headquarters 1346 Connecticut Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036) was founded in 1962 by Leo Szilard, a nuclear physicist. In the years following World War II Szilard fought de- velopment of the hydrogen bomb and supported J. Robert Oppen-heimin his attempt to get security clearance. Szilard worked in 1961 for general and complete disarmament by organizing two groups: The Council for Abolishing War and the the Lobby for Abolishing War. In 1962, these two were merged into the Council er for A Livable World. The Council seeks to raise funds by taxing each member one or two per cent of his annual salary. By this method they hope to be able to help candidates for peace who will vote to dismantle the defense system of the U. S. Since 1962 they have given hundreds of thousands of dollars for this purpose. It is difficult to UTAH FOR te O, pro-labo- r.) Taft-Hartl- ey This state is heavily Mormon, observes a GOP strategist, and the right to work is a fundamental doctrine of the church. Moss will have an impossible time defending that vote. Actually, Moss is spending very little time defending his position on 14b or on any issue, for that matter. Instead, low-pr- o he is running a well-finance- d, forget that the Soviets have a similar desire for the kind of peace which finds the U. S. unilaterally disarmed. The Council has seized advantage of a legal loophole to hide its political activities. Its members are asked to make checks payable to specific candidates and then forward the checks to the Council Office. For example, in a letter addres- - Reproduced from Human Events September 19. 1970 campaign that depicts him as a dedicated public servant who brings home the federal bacon and who toils arduously for the poor consumer. file Moss' image as a battler against special interests was tarnished somewhat recently by the disclosure that he had accepted an expensive limousine at a w-cost rental from a major auto manufacturer. As a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Moss regularly deals with legislation affecting the auto belo- industry. Moss major legislative interest since coming to Washington has been his drive to ban the advertising of cigarettes from radio and television. It was a position that took little courage to adopt. Mormons are against smoking, says one cynical newspaper editor, and there arent very many tobacco growers out here. Moss is a political accident who was elected to the Senate in 1958 with less than 40 per cent of the vote. Two Republicans, one running as an independent, split the vote, enabling the politically unknown Moss to sneak in. He was reelected in the Johnson landslide of 1964 and now faces on his own. well-publiciz- re-elect- In Burton, Moss is meeting a who was reproven elected two years ago by 75,000 votes. Burton, who is serving his fourth term, is of course well known in his own district. He will concentrate the rest of the campaign in the Salt Lake City area, which includes half the state's voters and is Moss' home town. vote-gett- er sed to its members dated August 26, 1969, the Council directed its members whose names began with A through F to make their checks payable to Hart for Senate Committee (Senator Philip Hart, Mich.) and for names beginning with G through O to Reelect Senator Moss Committee. In their letter they state, The two senators whom we believe you should support now face- FORUM THE AMERICAN IDEA presents ed Two years ago Utah voters gave Richard Nixon a margin of 82,000 votes, at the same time GOP Sen. Wallace Bennett and both Republican congressmen. But GOP strategists are taking nothing for granted. They note that Democratic Gov. Calvin L'. Ramp-to- n was by more than 2 to 1 in that same election and that Utah voters vote the man, not the party. This election will be decided on one thing and one thing only, Burton says, The philosophies of Frank Moss and Lawrence Burton. (Burton for Senate Committee: 68 S. Main, Room 527, Salt Lake City, Utah.) re-elect- re-elect- ed difficult campaigns and - tion talks (SALT). The donations of this group to among the prime targets for rep-la- c ement by reactionary men. Moss run into thousands of dolBoth have been unfading in their lars. dedication to arms control and How much do Moss votes on peace and deserve massive support at this time. emphasis our defense system reflect the wishes of this extrmist group as added They further state, Utahs they attempt to influence conSenator Frank E. Moss is also high gress to unilaterally disarm the on the target list of the reaction- - United States in the face of an ob- aries. A liberal on both domestic vious Soviet enemy? and foreign policy, and an early Operation Alert, put out by opponent of escalation of the Vietnam War, he has repeatedly the American Security Council taken stands on controversial points out that the U. S. is now issues which have provoked angry number two in strategic military outbursts from an active radical power. In their National Security right wing. He has been a constant Index they point out that on ten critic of the ABM proposal . . . . key votes relating to national Then, the letter finished by security, Moss voted only once in saying the Council For A Livable favor of stronger security for the World's current Washington activU.S. ities would be to prevent deployIt is a common truism that he ment of the Safeguard ABM and to halt testing of multiple ind- whose bread I eat, him will I serve. 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