The Michiaon Daily-Tuesdo. June 16. 1981--Page 3 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.