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Show Orrin Hatch attacks Unions, Bureaucrats also labeled George Meany, AFL-CIO president, as the most powerful man in the nation. "It's got to stop,'; Hatch declared. "It is a bi-partisan issue." Hatch said if someone besides a Republican. President with a Hatch also said Ronald Reagan, defeated presidential candidate, will be in Utah around October 27 to aid his campaign. In other statements, Hatch said: -He was in opposition to the Clean Air Amendments. The (continued on page two) The United States will be faced with problems "second to none" if Congress and its spending is not restrained, Orrin Hatch, Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate, told a Cedar City group Thursday. Hatch, seeking the post presetnly held by Frank E. Moss, said "whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it is time for a change in Washington, time for some fresh blood." Hatch was speaking at a no-host no-host luncheon sponsored by the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. Sen. Moss had also been invited but was unable to attend because of the closing session of Congress. Hatch said he felt certain Moss could have attended. He also said he figured Moss would be missing more speaking engagements before the November elections. Labeling Moss as a "sincerely dedicated, liberal Senator," Hatch said the incumbent Democrat has seen Utah fall from the 16th highest state in income per capita to 42nd in the nation during his time in office. This, he said, was due to "lack of leadership." Hatch, a small businessman and attorney, also attacked Moss's voting record and said the senator was ranked as the eighth most liberal senator in the congress by some conservative listings. "Senator Moss has got to be beaten," Hatch said. "I am running my campaign on guts, not finances. Sen. Moss has all the money he needs. I have no strings attached to special interest in-terest groups, and unfortunately our senator does." Candidate Hatch also attacked labor unions,- bureaucratic agencies and the Democratic Congress. Hatch said big labor organizations, such as AFL-CIO put millions of dollars into the election campaigns, including Moss's. Hatch said the governmental agencies, what he termed the fourth branch of the government, "run things, and wjll continue to do so until Congress pulls up some purse strings." This year, he said, for the first time, government workers outnumber factory workers. Labor unions, he said, were to blame, in part for the financial plight of New York City. Hatch strong veto is elected, bills such as the Humphrey-Hawkins bill and national health care will become laws. The Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which makes the government the employer of last resort, would cost the taxpayers $20-40 billion. . A .National health care, he said, was the idea of "people who do not live and work in the real world." He said the plan would cost an additional $80 billion. "And the sad part is," Hatch declared, "the ones who pay for it won't be able to take advantage ad-vantage of it." Hatch pointed to England as an example of social programs and i social spending. James Callahan, England's Prime Minister, was quoted by Hatch as saying he feels Great Britain, "has operated too long on credit and now must earn its way." i ; ' " . - ' . jp ' " REPUBLICAN SENATE SEEKER. Orrin Hatch, seeking the post now held by Frank E. Moss, spoke to the Cedar Chamber during a campaign swing. Hatch here discusses the feasibility of a Cedar office, if he is elected, with City Manager Mike Embley and Mrs. Embley. Orrin Hatch states platform (continued from page one) various clean air regulations, Hatch said, have added an estimated $2500 per car in the U.S. -favored the research of other sources of energy, besides oil. including nuclear energy. Oil reserves, he said, will not last over 50 years. -favored a national energy policy, as long as the EPA did not dominate that policy. Further delays, he said, would hurt southern Utah when "brownouts" finally occur in other areas of the country. --favored grain trades with communist countries but not the giving of technology or weapons, particularly nuclear weapons. -opposed the Common Situs Picketing bill. He said the measure was the first step to kill "right to work" laws, causing forced unionization. -Hatch called the breakup of oil corporations bad. The largest oil company, Exxon, he said, had only eight percent of the industry's in-dustry's profits, "hardly a monopoly." |