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6-A The Greenville News and Piedmont Saturday, March 15, 1980 3 SOUTHERN HOME GARDEN SHOW Grttiirilit Auditorium LAST 2 DAYS! Dial 298-4110 For Home Delivery of the Greenville Piedmont Daniel employees' walkout hasn't spread, official says Cotton dust appeal sought By SCOTT SUNDE News seal! writer inal 200 strikers crossed picket lines. And work was not halted at other sites, though there was some picketing at a DuPont plant, where Daniel is working. "It (spreading the strike) hasn't happened at all," said Bob Banks, a Daniel vice president who had been negotiating with the strikers. "It hasn't affected the other job sites at all." Banks said 60 percent of Daniel's 221 workers at Hercofina were working Friday. He said he expects the rest to return Monday or Tuesday.

Daniel will begin to fill the positions of those who don't return, he said. Meanwhile, the strikers said they still planned to meet Sunday at a public park in Wilmington to discuss their problems. The threat to spread a strike of Daniel Construction Co. employees to several work sites in Wilmington, N.C., 'failed to occur Friday, and a company executive said he expected all employees back to work on Monday or Tuesday. More than 200 Daniel workers at a Daniel job site at a Hercofina plant were off the job Wednesday and Thursday, protesting their lack of benefits and vac-tion pay.

The workers also warned that they would spread their discontent to at least four other plants in the Wilmington area, where Daniel either has maintenance or construction contracts at four plants. On Friday, more than half of the orig nr March exhibits (If Br--" GREENVILLE 11 ANTIQUE SHOW AND SALE Ul VI Graanvllla, S. C. NJiW AnnUa' ljpljj ill Church St. tt iu 1 SHERATON Agtf 00 I MOTOR Admission INN 1 Iff ntlrcshow 111 Cj? Banks negotiator Belk-Simpson to close downtown store The textile industry made its last stand against the federal cotton dust standard Friday, when it asked the U.S.

Supreme Court to hear the industry's appeal challenging the regulations. The American Textile Manufacturers Institute-asked for the appeal Friday, noting four main exceptions to the standard, a spokesman for ATM I said. The standard, which is designed to protect thousands of workers in the Carolinas and elsewhere from brown lung disease, has been entangled in lengthy courts battles almost since its inception. Shortly after the regulations went into effect in September 1978, the industry legally challenged the Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules. A federal court stayed the rules in 1979, but early this year the U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia threw out all appeals to the standard and ordered it to go into effect on March 27. Meanwhile, the cotton dust standard in South Carolina, where the state Labor Department administers OSHA regulations, also was halted by state court action. But the department is preparing to ask the state court to lift that stay and let the state standard go into effect on March 27. The request for an appeal filed Friday bv ATM I states that the industry differs with OSHA's definition of "feasible" as it applies to the standard. The industry also challenges OSHA's cost-benefit studies of the standard's effects.

It also contends that the court of appeals in Washington failed to analyze OSHA's maindate to provide "substantial evidence" to issue the standard. Finally, ATM I questions the legality of a part of the standard that allows workers to be transferred to less dusty parts of a textile mill and be guaranteed that their wages will not change. nearly 64 years ago, we have grown and changed with the Greenville community, responding to our customers' changing needs." By "relocating" the store to the Haywood Mall, Belk-Simpson will better be able "to serve the increasing needs of our customers," he said. Charles White, manager of the downtown store, has been appointed manager of the mall store. The company will continue operating stores in McAlister Square, Lewis Plaza, Greer and Easley.

blow to downtown Greenville. On Aug. 1, the downtown business community will be without a major department store. Department stores draw shoppers to an area and increase traffic for other shops. Henery Simpson, executive vice president of Belk-Simpson, said the company's board of directors decided to close the downtown store "in order to make possible an orderly transfer of management and personnel to the new store.

"We have determined that it would not be practical for us to continue operating the downtown store," Simpson said in a statement. "Since opening the downtown store Belk-Simpsoii Co. announced Friday that it will close its Main Street department store, which has operated downtown for 64 years, in July. The store will be closed when the Haywood Mall, a $25 million regional shopping center at Interstate 385 and Haywoood Road, opens om July 30. Belk-Simpson is one of four companies that will operate deparments stores at the mall.

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