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32 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Tuesday, June 25,1974 Debating Health vs. Jobs Plastics Industry Mobilizes to Thwart Tough Rules on Handling Vinyl Chloride By Walter Mohotro ' ' atone could cause the polyvinyl chloride staff Bvtmir / Th* wall stnmt journal powder ir ream to release trapped quant! WASHINGTON - A* tee federal govern- ties of raw vinyl chloride gas. meat move* clow to adapting stringent Inst week the Society of Ute Plastics In controls over hsiamng of the ubtqiatotia lir dustry, a trade group,- asserted that-aufttdustrlal chemical vinyl chloride, Tuamifao dent tectssAOfy doem't exist to meat 1 turera who uae It are motolllxlng to try ter proposed atandarti and warned that much of show that the controls eotlld prove economi the vinyl and polyvinyl chloride Industry cally dtaaatroua. might have to dose if the standard goes into The rules would be utterly unworkable, effect. The society predicted that l. million the compeniee any, and Industry would lose Jobe and "at least MB btlUcn'' In sales and an essential manufacturing- material. In production could be loot consequence, they add, makers of plastic Ralph Harding Jr., president of the sod pipe, auto parts, phonograph records and ety, said that the proposed standard "Is many man products would be drtvea to the technologically Infeasible to achieve, even wall. And, they contend, thousands of Jobe with the highly sophisticated methods of in- would vanish. plant central that have been developed by This gloomy picture la likely to dominate Labor Department hearings, beginning today, an planned standards for eliminating the espoam of plaatlcnfndustry workara to the chemical, which la suspected of causing the Industry over the yean. If the proposed 'no-detectable-level' standard Is adopted, the vtnyi chloride and polyvinyl chloride resin producing Industries will be farad to close down Immediately." Exposure to vinyl cMoehtei * gas, ha* The Labor end Hoaith View hash linked by researchers to It cases of a A millibar ct UbnHAkA and ffffnpattfin- rare liver cancer, nglneerrnme .amtaig al-health experts are expected to digjute the workers handling it in the U.8, end other society's claim at the heartnga. They con countries; fat it of these cases, death re tend that It la pnaWhla to meet the standard sisted. h sddlttoa, angiosarcoma has re without ftminy tin tiriurliy cently bee* biamad lor the death id two But hanh pradtettmm an ********* la +rrn)lnjiii la pints. many of the more than 1M letters frotn pias- thlorldu, the- pnwdsaed derivative ot vlnyl- tioeftrme already on Ole with the Labor De- i lihnlde gee, llwtl b fakvlaaiail Mrs mde rangeotptastleprcteclafTWo athmliMiS Norn aaglneeraoina have bean diacc among people bvlng In the vicinity of plaaan tens. MCA Records Inc. contended that If the standards farced PVC production to end. , "our tndunhy would be forced, out of tnad> ness." The National Association of Home Build- era said the standards cook! drtve the rising coats of housing wen higher by forcing builders to abandon economical PVC boua- ing components. It warned teat such a de velopment could mean "sorely needed hous ing would be beyond the reach of an In* createigiy large segment of tee public." Norton Co,'s plastics and synthetics divi sion, which makes tubing for medical vises, warned that if the new rules curbed supplies of PVC, desperately needed equipment used In kidney dialyrta and heart surgery might became unavailable. And Granttevill*Co. of Granitevllle, 8.C-, a maker of Bro-ietardaot tents and tent material, called PVC "tee moat important component'1 in Its products. What's mere, Arthur Culbertson, a Flor ida plastics executive, and Oerakl Kessler, an officer of an Ohio plastics company, urged modlflcatloo at the proposed stan dards an the gruunte teat they themselves had had long personal exposure to vhtyl chloride without iU etteela Moat id the latter mltoa acknowledged the need to protect workara from tea pond bQUy id Beer cancer. But (toy urged, daisy In ier--leg such haste leatrlcdona, both,to give adantlata time kw further research and to allow the tntehaame tef phase In tea new dUNWtommlte " r - <'* aeeded orr vjnyt chlorlda, most contend that patheOo view cf tee dangsrs id death fromvtnyi- chlfwlde Jameson (tone, of (ton* imposed a nmtttef werkmef eapeeuri to ileaI juMmIiH gas te port* pm- mHfemteiSrilf fete lam than theoakapse-of fewr 1 Almaat ail the lattan earns Irani ossrs of polyvteyttokgklBi osPVC, andact - - ns-- .-we .- -wek IdLA -e^i--e -a . u .. ,s -- Pleatica Ins,, .fct. Qdunihin. Wa alifij "Wa emUtmia to belmpreasad withtea oons- pailacn ef tee TMew of deetto amnally due to atdik prompted by lea* id Jobs, vetv mm PVC. m must cases, sue tee l> engMaeruoma deetto worktortdn that; Mr auppUara of FVC over OS yean ot PVC preductioe.'' ttf W.nw p^i^^^towraeto bam meeker fean-.feok ,td mgltemfrltoto -- 1 mao<-wtdab)hMMf oee Mamvtnga.1* At A'&Krtafe totems* of Loans Crepe. doom tor the Soveraldoaonniaiimthat main vinyl chloride gas or polyvinyl chloride powder or nafit and tor moat el the hopukwda ef plmke dial "thru potyvlnyt chloride into ptaatte producta,.^-, i. Wti, * GhMMt maker o* BfeJten* BSadot-rliib fcidlnpkbon, wrote--that-**T ywwn ago, at the depth id the deprneelun, t Martuan-w-imuMtaM, huamete which hag, grows luMjhlw o wa do approximately it: million worth of btirtnaaa and employ over The Stendard wtadd raqWra that moot M paopUi1' H-femnew rules an imposed, operations in the prpdUOUon of vtnyt ctolcr- to add, "we'd-be back- to a anemaan bo ide and pctyvlnyl chlorite. which emplcja neseoverraghL"- < an mUmatad SJBO woekars. ftp ikaakiiWidhi One Hon, rnaroni Tilm mikfil Ins., closed off.' legalated are which makes plaattatrim tor aeoaral Wg can be ramtnllad by TChtiletton auto- makwa, warned .that the new rules other hm0km*b jtrhWli could cut <ft its eg>pty <4 PVC natna, end of pients timdng pulyvley) produsta, which are said: to employ tg> (h TOtHOb-werkars, would be aubjeeud to Wmilar atirlngeol meliieaiiiu rules tf thcaeapw- ing Its {adduction and oaudng tt In rim laws aha by Detroit for failure to fuMD' atgipiy contracts- The-- Bra; an offtchr' wrote; "would undoubtedly be forced Into banks hvtcy." 't* Hubbard Aptartee, e heahetete .roes* petty hr Coated, Iflto.. wrote to declare that it contort female te buatoasa lfPVC sup- pttee wars tenanted bacauae Its hooey la add te FfO bottles aad. rises bottles a cares as a natdtdf tfsodwefe teertage. te teoh ttaay te tto tettwa'eoafmid that PTC Is already te tenet supply, highly vareatUa and aheotutoy nionmary for a va riety of important oase. apokeatnen Urn Ilia record Indutey far* slated that the plastic la vital to its opera. UCC 093832