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Show AGREEMENT TO i settle mm ' 113 REACHED Move Launched to Stop Building Delays Caused By Variety of Disputes WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. A national nation-al agreement designated to settle the 'Jurisdictional disputes said to have I caused most of the strikes In the building Industry in the past, was reported re-ported by the Associated General Contractors Con-tractors of America, th" American Institute In-stitute of Architects, the Engineering I Council, the National Building Trades Employers' association nnd the Bulld-1 Bulld-1 lng trades department of the Aimri- can Federation of Labor through the 'national board of jurisdictional wards in its quarterly meeting Jusl ccnclud-i-d here, it was announced today, MAY SUSPEND I MiiNs i The agreement provides that lo al building trade councils shall suspend ' unions and rfuse to recognize or support unions which fall to abide- by decisions b the board It also pro-1 pro-1 vides that general contractors and sub-contractors shall . incorporate in agreements with union labor a provision provis-ion foi compliance with all decisions 'of the board and .-.hall refuse employ-ment employ-ment to members of local unions I which do not abide by its decisions. I Architects and e'glneera also are bound i under the agreement to insert In all their specifications ami contracts a clause providing that th board's decisions de-cisions shall be followed (,i:i i:mi: r is re in U The agreement .as reached with adoption of a report for a stpcclal committee com-mittee of the national board of Jurisdictional Juris-dictional aw aids , Tho board at its recent meeting also I settled a dispute between elevator eon-'structors eon-'structors and electrical workers by I awarding the formei Hirisdlstlon over ; the hoisting, lowering and pjacjng of i elevator machinery The tnternatlon- al presidents of both unions, it was announced, expressed willingness to ! abide bv the decision. |