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Republican-labor liason? ! Very feasible, says labor lobbyist By TOM WOLFE Of the Emerald Do Republican candidates and labor lobbies make strange bed fellows? Not necessarily, according to Irv Fletcher, executive secretary of the Lane County Labor Council. Fletcher cited Lane County Labor endorsements of Republi cans Sen. George Wingard and Rep. Mary Burrows, both of Eugene as examples of current labor/Republican romances, when he spoke before the Rubi con Society Thursday. “We don’t demand complete fidelity,” Fletcher explained. “But when an occasional affair with the other side turns into something more, we start wondering.” To attract and retain labor sup port, Fletcher said a candidate must remain sympathetic with labor on such issues as unemp loyment and workmen’s compen sation, minimum wage require ments, collective bargaining and increased state support for school funding. There’s no reason that person can’t be a Republican, said Fletcher. The lobby recognized the his tory of labor allying itself with Democratic candidates, a tradi tion he traced to the New Deal days of Franklin Roosevelt. He and Rubicon members also noted that times and issues have changed since those days making Republican-labor alliances more feasible. University Prof. Paul Holbo, his tory, said these alliances might grow as working people’s social vaiues come nearer those sup ported by Republicans. Other Rubicon members said “overwhelming” economic needs Balanced budget is good news for voter By LARRY MAGDER Of the Emerald It’s good news for taxpayers this year. They will not be faced with the decision of whether to give additional funds to the county's budget. Higher-than-expected re venues from federal timber sales enabled the county to pass a budget last month which would not require more than a six per cent hike in property taxes, ac cording to Wanda Henson, member of the county’s budget committee. Any raise in property taxes of more than six percent has to be approved by Lane County voters. Commissioner Archie Wein stein opposed the adoption of the budget. He said there were a number of items in the budget he was against, but he specifically objected to an increase in the county’s Lane Council of Gov ernments dues, and the perpetua tion of property taxes as a source of county revenues. Henson said after the budget was initially formulated, the com mittee decided to make a two per cent across-the-board reduction in departmental budgets. Wein stein was in favor of a 10 percent reduction. Henson said it was unusual for the county to be deliberating on a budget in December. She said the county formulated the budget in two phases last year because the amount of funds from Oregon and California timber sales was not known until mid-October. She also said two new commissioners and new budget committee mem bers slowed up the process. This year will be different, she said. "We now have a process fig ured out by which we think we can have a budget by July 1 taking into account different possible levels of timber funds,” she said. Approximately 62 percent of the county’s revenues will come from the federal government due to timber sales, grants, contracts and revenue sharing. Ten percent will be acquired from state con tracts and revenue sharing and 27 percent will come from local sources including property taxes and voter-approval levies and bond issues. The approved budget allocates 37 percent of the revenue for human services, 28 percent to en vironmental services, 15 percent to law enforcement and judicial services and 20 percent to gen era! government and manage ment services. organized labor challenged during and immediately following the Depression had largely disap peared because of advances al ready made by labor. Fletcher admitted that the per centage of union members in the overall workforce has been “slowly descending’’ since the 1950s. He attributed some of the loss to disappearing distinctions between social, moral and economic issues. An example is the bottle bill the Legislature passed without labor endorsement in 1972. It’s not that labor wanted litter along the high ways, Fletcher explained. “We opposed the bill because it made no provision for relocation or re training of displaced bottle indus try workers.” “On the other hand, we did sup port raising minimum wage levels although few trade union people directly benefited from it,” said Fletcher The lobbyist admitted that trade union members could expect indirect benefits as pay scales are adjusted upward to ac comodate new minimum levels. State and local labor endorse ments are made only with a two thirds recommendation from rep resentative bodies. While en dorsements occasionally appear during primaries, they are nor mally restricted to final elections, said Fletcher. 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