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Show liUTOf SON REFUSES TO SIGN AGREEMENT WASHINGTON, Fob,. 21, William L. Hutcheson, president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Join-ers, todny declined again to sign the memorandum already signed bv the seventeen other ship workers unions giving the shipbuilding wage adjustment adjust-ment board full authority to settle all differences. Instead Hutcheson submitted a counter-proposal and let it be known that until the wage adjustment board accepted It he would have no further conferences. The terms of the proposal pro-posal were not announced but are understood un-derstood to state that the carpenters' union is willing to leave questions of wages and hours, but not quostions of j conditions of labor, to tho dopartment' of labor and that tho union will agroo that all labor bo hired through the department de-partment of labor. |