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Airlines Strict Vinyl Chloride Limits, Due Jan. 1, ots Agree May Be Delayed by Federal Court Ruling 23815001 Contract flv Wall Stkfct JdrRNAL Reporter ,NHW YORK -- Imposition of L-d,.. rp",.1`vcr cancer, might be delayed by a f- .f appeals panel's decision. purtment standards to sever*. hi., t . ''nanent standards developed by the sure of workers to vinyl chloride, a gas Labor Department s Occupational Safely linked with more than two dozen cases of a and Health Administration, which would re for 22% Boost quire companies to hold vinyl chloride American Air to SellMonths; Top levels In the air workers breathe to one part vinyl chloride per million parts of air, aver aged over an eight-hour period, arc sched Two Freighter 747s;Reach $80,600 uled to go into effect Jan. l.But a special Ijiree-judgc panel _nf the Second Circuit- xnd Lfht'is M. P'iFXfs . u i't srm:r \ u. . ; ngTced to a key wage loost the annua! bate : pilots more than $14,* will raise its average -i.ghtly above that in a ..v pact reached earlier r lanes. eases are included in nth labor agreement -.tween United and the ;.-;iition. The proposed vs flying for United, a : the nation's biggest air Court of Appeals here granted a stay until Brice Is $40 Million it could decide the merits of an appeal hv the Society of the Plastics Industry and eight companies that oppose the new standards. B 'I n W \ J !, 8TKKKT JfX K.VU. S 1<\{{ Reporter The judges, retired U.S. Supreme Court NEW YORK--American Airlines agreed Justice Tom O. Clark and Judges Frederick to sell two converted freighter versions of van Pell Bryan and Kevin T. Duffy of the the Boeing 717 "jumbo jet" to Trans Medi U.S. District Court of the .Southern District terranean Airways for about S10 million, in of New York, have heard ail the arguments dustry sources said. presented by the companies and by the Jus Trans Mediterranean is a privately tice Department, representing the Labor owned, major all-cargo carrier based in Bei Department, and could conceivably rule cn rut. Lebanon. The planes will be the first 747s the merits of the appeal by Jan. 1. In the in its fleet. event they don't, however, standards in ef Although final documents covering the fect since last April that permit 50 parts per h United and the pilots to give details cf the ,:s ratification by the cjtivc Council. But its :-is were learned from .'ots and union and air- transaction haven't yet been signed, nego million vinyl chloride would remain in tiations are considered completed by both force, the panel ruled. parties and signing is expected shortly with The 50-parts-pcr-million limit was issued out complications. A spokesman for Ameri by the labor agency unit as a temporary can declined any official comment on the emergency standard last March, within matter, however. weeks of the first reports that workers ex For American, the sale increases to six posed for several years to high concentra United'* pilots a'c to the number cf 717s it has sold this year ; 6!"c retroactive to last since concluding in the light of disappointing :.<?xt Jun* 1, 4ryc on Jan traffic growth that it overbought the big ' iri on June 1, 19T6 plane. It had purchased in of them for about rain of nearly 22C< over 525 million apiece, it grounded 10 of it; 16 -.-sod agreement, which | last January during the fuel crisis but later vC. 13, 1976. Including a returned most of them to regular service j 5.5"% pay boost given while continuing to try to pare the fleet's tions of vinyl chloride gas had died of liver angiosarcoma, a rare but invariably fatal cancer. The emergency standard went into effect last April. Prior to the SO-parts-per-million limit, levels of vinyl chloride in factory air were generally considerably higher, often reach ing several thousand parts per million. ve last May l, a month act expired, their aver' .ve jumped more than om scales in effect be- size. In addition to previously selling four planes--three back to Boeing Co. and one to the National Aeronautics and Sparc Admin istration--American also had converted two to cargo-only configurations. The temporary emergency level became the first stage of permanent standards in voked by the Labor Department last Octo ber, after more than 26 cases of angiosar coma had been reported world-wide. But in ots -- those that captain But the latest transaction also represents dustry challenged the second stage, a onc- craft --will move to an a marked waning for the time being of part-pcr-miilioii limit, due to begin Jan. 1, ? pay of about $>0,000 American's once-strong interest in the 717 s as unnecessarily strict and impossible to : increase from $65,300 freight-carrying potential. Tiio first 747 meet. effect since last May's freighter it will deliver to Trans Mediterra In addition to the Society of the Plastics ' from $02,900. Captains nean will be the second converted 717 that Industry, the concerns participating in the .raft typos would move from $'0,500 for Me- American originally had planned to use on its own domestic routes starting next appeal ol the permanent standards are the Hooker Chemical Corp,, a subsidiary of Oc rp.'s DClOs, to $63,600 Donnell Douglas DCs;, for Boeing ?27s and to month. Instead, the plane, clue for return to American from Boeing after completion ot its modifications within a few weeks, will be cidental Petroleum Corp.; Union Carbide Corp.; Air Products Chemicals Inc.; B. F. Goodrich Co.; Uniroyal Inc.; Dow Chemical :r Boeing 737a. further refitted, including an upgrading to Co.; Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and Tcu- r^y scales for captains merrase will be a few more-powerful, longcr-range versions of its engines. It will be delivered crrly in 1975 to neco Inc. Vinyl chloride Is a widely used industrial - >w those that will be Trans Mediterranean. gas used mainly to make polyvinyl chloride, v by DMta's soivor pi- The second delivery is slated for the or PYC, a plastic with many applications. `.he typical 717 captain spring cf 1976. Use of the gas as a propellant in aerosol -rning $51,200 a year at The sale arrangements with Trans Medi products lias been banned. o the top United scale, terranean give American the option to con About 6.0'X) workers are employed in r the Delta agreement. tinue at least one 717 freighter in service at plants that make vinyl chloride gas and-or in pay raises over 20 all times if it wishes, sine? it could convert polyvinyl chloi ide, but the permanent stan ;:'Pln **in the over $100,- another ot its passenger planes to a dards would also affect workers who fabri ,r the first time. They freighter to meet the scheduled second de cate PVC into a wide variety of finished " h company-paid livery date. It also could deliver the products. The number of workers in the b-n^filg [Q [[1C i)llsc freighter it is operating if the cargo slump PVC______ 'ustry has been variously continues cr other circumstances dictate estimated at 250,000 to 700,000. j'd'V^d pay scales such a move. . -..(vrs generally r ( ^ traditiun- Fight Dye Makers ` between House Vales to Raise re Fine ul $360,500 jl . '1 t T .,J * />-;*/ f n <y jH < one BFG27354 W' Vi J W16\lita dt) k n. n ,r\r-1'^ ? ? pTM"?* r r\ P .t-'N r- A new division of Dow Jon Wall Street Journal, which place advertising abroad a place it in The Only publications of the hig, jj are offered by DJIMS. 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