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SENA TE COMMIT TEE INCREASES AMTRAK APPROPRIA TION
Michigan train will remain
By MARK GINDIN the ranking Democrat on the committee, said that this week, Morgan said.
Daily staff writer Michigan service will not be eliminated. "We do not Initially, the Reagan administration had recom-
Ann Arbor and the rest of Michigan will probably envision any cuts in Michigan," said Linda Morgan of mended $613 million for Amtrak, and that proposal
have Amtrak service for at least three more years Cannon's office, "because the state has a good ser- had passed the committee. But wher, it came back to
because of committee action in the Senate last week. vice record." their attention, the Democrats, led by Cannon, had
The Senate Commerce Committee added $122 The cuts Amtrak predicts to 85 percent of the mustered enough votes to approve an increase for
million to the previously approved $613 million Am- existing system would have happened anyway under Amtrak, Morgan said.
trak appropriation for each of three years, which is belt-tightening moves already approved by Amtrak, One hundred and twenty-two million dollars was
enough to continue 85 percent of the existing system, Morgan said. The moves included shutting down un- added to the Reagan proposal by the committee last
laid Debbie Marciniak, an Amtrak spokeswoman. profitable trains as well as trimming other week, to bring the total to $735 million. Alan Boyd,
"IT IS HARD to say at this point if Michigan ser- operations, she said. president of Amtrak, had stated that $613 million was
vice \will be cut," said Marciniak, and the final THE COMMERCE committee recommendation of only enough to run the Northeast Corridor between
decision will probably not be known until July or a $735 million appropriation for the National Railroad Boston and Washington, D.C.
August. Passenger Corporation, as Amtrak was formerly
However, an aide to Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), known, will probably be passed by the entire Senate See AMTRAK, Page 11
Workers strike
Kolossos over
contract dispute
By ANDREW CHAPMAN
Daily staff writer
Claiming that their employers are
"union breaking," workers from down-
town Ann Arbor's Kolossos Printing,
310 E. Washington, have gone on strike
until a new and mutually agreeable
contract is negotiated.
Dennis Rigan, union shop steward at
Kolossos, said the workers are striking
because the owners "want to re-write
our contract in such a way that the
union would lose control of its workers'
jobs."
THE UNION contract expired June 1.
A new contract is now under con-
sideration.
"Their (the owners') overall
philosophy is that they want to be able
to do whatever they want, whenever
they want," Rigan said.
The owners, Nick Arahangelos and
John Murrel, declined to comment on
the strike.
THIS IS the second labor-
management dispute to occur at an Ann
Arbor print shop this summer. The first
such incident occured at The Wor-
dprocessors in late May.
The workers, members of The
Graphic Arts International union,
claim that the owners of Kolossos Prin-
ting want to re-write the workers' con-
tract to do away with certain key
benefits. "They want to get rid of our
seniority benefits. They want to be able
to hire non-union employees .
basically they want to have an open
shop," Rigan said.
"Inevitably, an open shop would take
away our jobs," Rigan said, adding,
"we want things to be run more
democratically than they do."
"I WOULDN'T be surprised if he
(Nick Arahengelos) would rather fold
the business than give in," Rigan said.
"They're union breaking," said
Kolossos pressman Donald Coe.
"They've had a union in the shop for
eight years and now they want it out."
Coe sited "narrow-minded
management" and the desire for more
money as principal reasons for the
owners' wish to "break" the union.
Rigan said the union does not seek a
wage increase. According to a flyer the -
striking workers handed out, there has
been "no general increase in wages
since June of 1979."
Daily Photo by JACKIE BEL
AN EMPLOYEE OF Kolossos printing shop on E. Washington walks a
picket line in front of the shop yesterday. Several Kolossos employees have
accused the shop's owners of "union-breaking," and have walked off the job.
Frye to reveal
decision on
geography
dept. today
By ANDREW CHAPMAN
Daily faculty reporter'
After holding private discussions yesterday after-
noon with several members of the University com-
munity regarding the fate of the University's
geography department, Vice President for Academic
Affairs Bill Frye announced that he will make public
today his recommendation concerning the depar-
tment's future.
"It was very helpful," said Frye of the pre-
arranged, three-hour-long discussion period. "Each
individual had considerations as to the closing of the
department.
FRYE SAID the discussions "stimulated me fur-
ther to think of possibilities for the department. A lot
of emphasis was put on considering other alter-
natives."
"I will make my decision on the recommendation
to the Regents, subject to touching base with the
president (Harold Shapiro), Dean (John) Knott, and
chairman of the department (John) Nystuen," Frye
said.
FRYE SAID some of the topic's discussed were the
possibility of a merger with another department, the
idea of selective discontinuance, the "real economic
implications of discontinuance," the public image
impact of the decision, it's "historical reputation" at
the University, and "what exactly geography is as a
discipline.'?
"None of the arguments that I heard were com-
pletely new," Frye said. "But they gave me new
twists to consider in my decision."
Frye said that of the six people who spoke to him,
two were alumni, one was a member of the
geography department, one was a University
professor, another was Michigan Student Assembly
President Jon Feiger, and one other who he did not
identify.