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Reich Friday, Feb. 6 Concert at 8:00 p.m. EMU Ballroom U of O Campus Dance at 9:00 p.m. $2.00 admission Free workshop on traditional dance Friday, 2:30-4:20 p.m. Gerlinger 220 IF Coalition seeks plant closure bill By DOUG BUTLER OfOMEimrald As the timber market deter iorates, mill closures and lost jobs will continue to plague Oregon towns, but the year-old Lane Coalition to Save Jobs believes the impact of closures can be cushioned. The coalition, made up of ap proximately 20 people, includ ing representatives of the Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica and a machinist's union, is pushing for legislation to prevent abrupt mill closures. Kurt Willcox, a coalition member and University graduate student, says the timber industry is vitally impor tant to Lane County because 70 percent of the county’s man ufacturing jobs are timber-relat ed. In the last 10 years, Lane County lost 3,000 timber in dustry jobs, he says. Currently, the county’s unemployment rate stands at about 10 percent — well above the national average. One forest service report predicts by the year 2000, Oregon’s timber industry em ployment will be down 45 per cent. "That’s a very serious long term trend,” Willcox says. The group is now focusing its efforts on getting Oregon’s Em ployment Stabilization Act passed. The bill would require companies to provide prior notification, financial informa tion and compensation if they decide to close a plant. In the event of a planned clo sure (not the result of unfore seen circumstances such as a fire), companies would have to give a year’s notice. Companies that don’t comply would be subject to heavy fines. Willcox says a lot of mill owners know far in advance they are closing. Knowing this, they often over-harvest their lands and fail to upgrade their machinery. The bill also calls for an in vestigation into the reasons for closure. Investigators would seek alternatives to closure such as creation of a worker’s cooperative or a local corpora tion. He says the Northwest has several 40-year-old plywood cooperatives, and that option is being researched for the town of Westfir. If no suitable alternative to closure could be found, the company would be required to pay each employee 85 percent of their regular wage for up to-a year. Other parts of the bill include provisions to tax the company at three times its normal rate if the company is shifting its opera tions to another county, Willcox adds. If a company goes out of bu siness, he says, the law would require that some of the com pany’s assets go toward helping employees get back on their feet. "It’s going to be a very hard struggle to push this bill through,” Willcox says. "It will probably be possible to get some sort of plant closure bill passed.” Maine and Wisconsin have passed similar laws. In the last Legislative session a plant closure bill was in troduced by state Sen. Ted Kulongoski, D-Junction City, he says, but it died in committee because it lacked grass-roots support. The bill, written by the Oregon AFL-CIO, is supported by the Oregon Democratic Party, Oregon Fair Share and other groups. Willcox says the As sociated Oregon Industries and most chambers of commerce are opposed. Center offers origami Origami, the ancient Japan ese art of folding paper into designs, is the subject of a new class taught by Michael Suss man at the University Craft Center. Sussman has practiced origami for nearly 20 years. With a single sheet of paper, Suss man can create toys, masks, hats and other objects, each within 15 to 30 minutes. Sussman has lived in Eugene for seven years. Here, he has held origami workshops teach ing four-year-olds as well as s The Oregon Daily Emerald Production Department does... & * tv l2F 6 O' & £ ^ ^ G> v Jo F jo & £ O' -O For more information caU 686-4381, EMU Suite 300. f <? / / ¥ f // / ie 6 adults. He says origami has two aspects: It can be functional, and it can be therapeutic. Origami is functional as it creates toys, greeting cards, masks, mobiles, puppets, hats and architectural models. For the old, mentally handicapped, and for those recovering from illness, origami lets them use their hands, minds and eyes for coordination. Sussman says origami is also a very economical art since it takes only paper to create. Sussman says that he teaches origami to individuals and wishes for his students to express their unique creative ness in their pieces. “My objective is to give my students enough background so that they can carry on, on their own.” Registration is at the Craft Center in the EMU. CASH For Textbooks Mon.-Fri. 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