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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Paqe 4 The UTAH Independent June 7, 1973 READERS OUTLOOK 1 Trotskyite splinter group. As lake sites and caused more than one reporter observed, "If twenty delays in the OSHA can't do better than this, construction of nuclear power it't in real trouble." " The day's plants." Let's not get carried away by firt public si .cmng of OSHA's the howls of environmentalists!! new public relations film, This Is O.S.H.A. A Sincerely, Orville Gephart Desert Hot Springs. Cal. Lowell Thomas OPEN LETTER TO MR. LOWELL THOMAS, Columbia AN Company, Broadcasting New York. N.Y. Dear Mr. Thomas: Several ago you days motion-slid- e 25-minu- te move produced at taxpayer expense, the film will be shown widely around the nation during coming months in an attempt to convince the public that OSHA's million-dolla- r harassment of small businessmen is justified. The film admits that 36,000 OSHA inspections, involving 31,000 business firms, were conducted during 1972. Approximately 125,000 mentioned Marvin Cooley, who had been convicted in Phoenix on four (4) counts of the Internal Revenue catch-al- l (226 USC Wilful Failure to File 7203) Returns, supply information, or pay tax'. You commented that Mr. Cooley is author of a book on the income tax scheme, called "The Big Bluff", but from the outcome of his trial it appeared that the 'government' had been holding a 'pat hand' Although I do not share Mr. Cooley's idea of what constitutes a genuine or violations were noted, and penalties totalling $3,000,000 were assessed. A sizable part of the movie is devoted to a tour of business sites, where such health and safety hazards as I kits to protect employees competent defense nevertheless, feel constrained to the correct glaring misapprehensions conveyed by the pedestrian slant of your statements. The 'government' wasn't holding a 'pat hand'. Mr. Cooley was up against a stacked deck of persons who have arrogated administration of the courts and partially-obstructe- fire access to extinguishers and d kits are The narrator does not observed. explain that employers and their insurance companies are just as worried about fire as any federal Oshacrat. Nor does the film note that, intimidated by other OSHA requirements, an employer, might padlock first-ai- d padlocked first-ai- d and others from unregulated access to potentially dangerous medications. Such treatment of adults as children would be an insult to workers, of course, but it is not at all inconsistent with OSHA's "Big Brother" approach to job safety. The film is simply incredible. fury." By the time we reach the third paragraph we are told that The John Birch Society considers OSHA part of a "grand conspiracy," and the Society is quoted as stating: "The real purpose of OSHA-- as of so many federal schemes- - is to totalitarian a impose discipline on the American people, ofthetypefoundin Nazi Germany and Communist Russia." we learn On page thirty-on- e a new that department has been added to the Oshacrat magazine. Entitled "Rumor Response," it promises "to set the record straight by printing some of the more persistent rumors along with OSHA's answer to them." Its first "Response" was aimed at figures recently compiled by National of Independent The Federation the authoritative Federation Business. conducted an extensive field investigation, and found that eight percent of the first ten thousand firms which responded had been subjected to an OSHA inspection. Of that percent had group, thirty-fiv- e been found in violation. The Federation reported that the fines levied, plus costs of compliance with OSHA directives, averaged $8,929 for each business. At that rate, the Federation asserted, it could eventually cost independent businesses over $16 billion for d fines and alterations. Significantly, the Federation noted that smaller manufacturers have suffered n most, with percent that they were reporting charged with alleg'ed violations costing an average of $11,987. Then, in an almost laughable OSHA-impose- fifty-seve- Toward the end it tells us that oi color under judiciary, since the federal government is law. from more conscientious the nations largest employer, it members of the body politic, who has a special responsibility to in conformance to the political lead the attempt to rebut the way in occupational Federation's carefully prepared Nation's psychology of this safety. Various federal efforts to mandate are rightfully the that end are described, and the study, OSHA responded that "is far too GOVERNMENT (or State). Mr. boast is made that as a result of 280 employers narrow a base for any Cooley was done in by such efforts the rate of injuries spokesmen for the New World to federal bureaucrats is less .responsible projections on the cost of compliance for millions the come-latel- y Adversary than half the rate for workers of employers across the (circa 1910) political collective in the private sector of our nation." Perhaps OSHA will tell we have dubbed the EEB economy (6.0 and 15.2 injuries that to Dr. Gallup and the other This (entrenched bench-barper million work-hourconsortium does not speak for respectively). Attempting to professionals whose samples are far smaller than those of the me or mine (who are the body cast a bad light on private politic) or Mr. Cooley, for that efforts to cope with the Federation! In to complaints matter. The aim of this private problems of job safety, the about response the ruinous costs it is association of men is to put Oshacrat propaganda film upright members of the body totally ignores the crucial fact imposing, OSHA declared that politic on the defensive and that private workers are often work accidents in 1971, make the people (body politic) engaged in heavy manufacture, excluding property damage, answerable and accountable to construction, mining, and other cost American industry $9.3 of saving their members (prosecutors, but vital enterprises, billion. The potential dangerous judges and the like) who five off whereas the main business of such expense, OSHA claimed, should be taken into account instead of the the federal work force is paperpublic payrolls over-a- ll cost other way around antibusiness: when tallying the congruent pushing. Such standards. of tothe basic premise of our enforcing safety polemics are typical of the film. as a reply, is utter Which, system. Included in the press kit was nonsense. For it falsely During the past year it has the May. 1973, issue of Job assumes that OSHA can stop all been discovered that Federal Health, the expensive Safety juries which purport to try OSHA industiral accidents. The fact is magazine monthly nor any people like Marvin Cooley on with your tax dollars. that neither OSHA, produces can doso. other earthly agency, phony tax raps are composed It, too, reflects the awareness of OSHA nor anyone Continued On Page 5 the Oshacrats that their agency And neither has else yet presented reliable is in real trouble. An article on any savings page three notes that OSHA is figures indicating now two years old, and asserts: realized to anyone as a result of "It has been anything but a quiet OSHA's harassment of is Even business. 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Box 518 Iona, Idaho The PHILADELPHIA(AP) American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, is protesting the ban of a nursery rhyme book from the shelves of Philadelphia's public schools. Titled "The Inner City Mother Goose," the book by Eve Merriam depicts ghetto life in a (b) It will no longer be a federal crime to employees to spit on the floor. As the series of rhymes and document puts it, "Any drawings. The school board reference to expectorating has ordered the book stricken from been removed from the final the shelves last October. Now, standard." the ACLU has issued a protest, It a is no federal (c) longer arguing the action did not follow violation for an employer to established school board have toilets located more than procedure for banning books. two hundred feet from a work An example of the book's area. The existing OSHA verse, a poem titled "Jack Be requirement that "toilet Nimble," reads: facilities be within 200 feet from "Jack be nimble. 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