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-ML7-. St A i nv, DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1974 fides LmAnk Msay Mot Grant Helps Met Museum By MICHAEL PATTERSON Removing the threat of a citywide apartment house strike, an arbitrator ruled yesterday that the landlords of rent-controlled buildings can not cancel a labor contract with Local 32-B of the Building Service Em ployes Union. The following hours will be in effect during July and August: Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.; Sunday and holidays, 11 a.m.

to 4:45 p.m. The museum, at Fifth Ave. 82d will be closed on Mondays. A grant from the New York State Council on the Arts has enabled the Metropolitan Museum of Art to retain Its Tuesday evening hours through the summer months, it was announced. The $1,212,400 allocation also will enable the museum to retain its regular Sunday hours, a spokesman said.

lhe union, representing superintendents, doormen, handymen and elevator operators at some 1,600 buildings in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, had vowed to strike if the landlords severed the agreement. Voted to Cancel Pact The landlords, represented by the Realty Advisory Board, voted overwhelmingly April 9 to cancel the contract in anticipation of a City Council move to repeal a law allowing a 4 labor "pass-along" to tenants. On June 11 the Council repealed the rent in ically," Marlin wrote," that April 20, 1974 was clearly a deadline inserted for the protection of the union, after which cancellation was not to be allowed." In so ruling, Marlin held that the contract, which expires in April 1976, remains "in full force and effect" and that the landlords must continue to pay the $12 weekly increase which took effect April 21. Landlords to Meet Hamilton Ford, executive vice president of the Realty Advisory Board, said the landlords would crease retroactive to the first of the year. In his 12-page written decision, George Marlin, the arbitrator, ruled that the vote by the landlords was "invalid" and did not conform with the cancellation provision of the The provision, according to Marlin, allowed for termination if the rent increase had been repealed before April 20.

Although the Council did finally repeal the law, the labor pass-along was still In effect at the time of the landlords' vote. "It would appear to follow log Already in court are the landlords of the Bronx Realty Advisory Board, who are challenging the right of the City Council to repeal the i'c increase meet Thursday to determine what action to take. Although Ford would not comment on what that action would be, the landlords are expected to challenge the arbitrator's ruling in the courts. Clergy: New Laws Could Close Camps By JAMES DUDDY Protestant leaders who run more than 700 free summer day ean-ps expressed fear yesterday that proposed new laws might force them to close some ot their facilities. for the "It would be a crisis children, and all because the city's Health Department has seen fit to interpret a state mandate stat ins: all camps here have to meet certain standards." said the Rev.

James Gusweller of the Episcopal Mission Society. "The new requirements do not annlv to us. The State Commis sion of Health firmly states that its ruling does not apply to plac not having the general facilities and characteristics of a summer News photo by Anthony Casale Home-made umbrellas and even a paper bag or two, were the order of the day as children march down W. 129th St. between Lenox and Seventh Aves.

in yesterday's heat. day camp. We do our best to Play Streets Open and Kids Are All PALs help the children, but without outside funding it is hard." Ha said the society does not have the money to compete with a full-time camp and therefore should not fall under the new requirements. The clergymen, who held a conference at interchureh Center, 475 Riverside Drive, contended that the new proposal would also call for them to hire additional professional staffers. This added cost, they said, would force them to, in many cases, close for the summer.

A spokesman for the Health Department said, "With the Inspections of the buildings and the evaluations by the building, fire and our department, I would say that the summer would only be for gathering information." The spokesman didn't think these camps had anything to worry about this year. The city has its own plan, which is now under revision and would precede the state mandate. However, the revisions will take at least a year, according to the spokesman. The clergymen stated they did not object to better conditions, although they denied that their programs were in any way inadequate. They feel, one said, that if the city is to run their programs it should pay for them.

By ALBERT DA VILA Young athletes, bands, gaily costumed children yesterday's summer heat at W. 129th etween Lenox ing the Police Athletic League's 60th birt hday and the and guests were all there in and Seventh celebrat-opening of the citywide play street program. until Aug. 30. Salaries, equipment and transportation take most of the money.

"The program keeps youngsters out of trouble," said Morgenthau, a former U.S. Attorney. "Tremendous benefits are coming out of the play streets for many areas of the city that don't have recreation facilities," he added. But as the Cedet Corps of Central Harlem's PAL's Philip Center played the last bars of an Afro-jazz tune, the grownups took over the only basketball ring and the children drifted on to other places or just watched the oldsters play. sioner Michael Codd, Robert Mor- genthau, now in his 11th year as volunteer president of PAL, and other city officials and local dignitaries.

The play street program each summer offers thousands of city children a mobile park of sorts right in the neighborhood, where a city street is blocked to traffic. Street games such as volleyball, basketball and hop-scotch are featured In the popular PAL project. "It's okay," said Patricia Wallace, 13. "I got a place to play," adding that she would "just hang around" otherwise. There are 40 play streets in the five boroughs, with about 10 more scheduled to open soon.

It will cost PAL $5,000 to keep a play street open from Monday to Friday, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., It was a colorful one-hour affair as the Harlem children paraded down the street with costumes depicting PAL's six decades from the dress of 1914 to the space suits. They marched bearing signs "PAL Helps to Train and Counsel Youngsters for Future Careers" and "PAL Brotherhood" a sang "Happy Birthday PAL." Watching were Police Commis Hot Water These Elderly Tenants Would Like to Be in By LAWRIE MIFFLIN Tenants of the Shelton Towers Hotel, 525 Lexington are still not receiving; proper hot water service in spite of a Criminal Court conviction the tenants obtained a month ago against the landlord, for failure to provide such service, it was fdiifing Caps Fight in Jail A fight between two inmates in the Brooklyn House of Detention early yesterday culminated with the stabbing and critical wounding of William Vasquez, 36, reportedly awaiting trial on a burglary charge, police said. A Correction Department spokesman said Louis Peluso, awaiting trial on a homicide charge, stabbed Vasquez with a filed-iown bedspring at 9 a.m. in a recreation room.

are not fixed, pigeons are roosting in vacant rooms, windows are not washed, there is no regular garbage collection and in the hallways or public bathrooms in winter and the people live there because they wanted hotel service," Mrs. Ryan said. Another judgment against Citadel was obtained in February 1973 by Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, who said at the time that the landlord was "under court order to properly maintain" its buildings and "to provide heat, hot water and other services." Mrs. Ryan said that she has kept Lefkowitz apprised of the continuing violations but said he has refused to seek a contempt-of-court judgment against the company or to take action on behalf of the tenants.

charged 3'esterday. Pipes serving the basement boiler burst last February, and since then the single-room occupancy hotel's 11 residents have had sporadic and inadequate hot waster supplies, Shirley A. Ryan, director of the East 49th St. Tenants Group, charged. She said the landlord, Citadel Management has made "no move whatsoever to repair the basement situation," which Judge Benjamin E.

Lander ruled was caused by wilful and intentional" neglect in the first place. Instead of repairing the boiler, the landlords installed 20-gallon capacity electric water heaters. But according to Allen R. Allen, an engieer and tenant of the building: since 1944 who brought the suit against Citadel, those heaters provide about six Inches of hot water in a bathtub before turning: cold. He said the electric heaters also violate another law, a section of the Administrative Code of the Department of Buildings requiring that multiple-dwelling buildings have a central hot water source, such as the boiler.

Rent Commissioner Leonard E. Yoswein reportedly promised the tenants that he will enforce this provision, but until then the electric heaters are all the tenants have and they fear that if those are reved there will be no hot water at all. The tenants, mostly elderly people who have lived in the Shelton Towers for at least 10 ears, have bbeen fighting eviction for three years, ever since the Citadel Management C. took over as landlord. The building owners, Tishman Realty and Construction want to turn the hotel into a 52-story commercial building but their application to do so was rejected by the city June 6.

"These tenants are being harassed in other ways leaks.