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Show Labor Unions to Live Up to Agreements "TATIONAL agreement heavily pe- nallzlng unions which refuse to abide by decisions has been reached by the Associated General Contractors jf America, the American Institute of Architects, the Engineering council, the National Building Trades and Employers' Em-ployers' association, and the American Federation of Labor through the national na-tional board of jurisdictional awards, which has concluded Its regular quarterly quar-terly meeting In Washington. A resolution adopted provides that local building trades councils of union labor shall suspend unions and refuse to recognize or support those unions which refuse to abide by decisions of the national board. It also provides that general contractors con-tractors and subcontractors who employ em-ploy only union labor shall incorporate In their agreements with labor a provision pro-vision that will secure compliance with all the decisions of the board, and that they shall refuse employment to members of local unions which do not abide by such decisions, and further that architects and engineers shall insert in-sert In all their specifications and contracts con-tracts a clause that such decisions shall be followed. "This resolution," says a statement Issued by the national board, "Is of .tr-reaching consequence to settle jur- lsdlctlonal disputes, which in the past have constituted the majority of the causes for strikes and resulting delays de-lays arid economic losses. "It Is the most effective co-operation between workmen, employers and professional pro-fessional men interested In construction construc-tion looking toward the settlement of these jurisdictional disputes without resort to strikes. "This action has been taken as the result of the report of a special committee com-mittee of the national board appointed to outline the procedure to be followed in clearing up the situation created by the refusal of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to conform to the. decision of the board In the case of settling the dispute between the carpenters nnd the sheet metal workers which was decided In favor of the latter." |