Construction Workers End Strike; Will Recommence Work on Quincy

The 22-day-old strike of construction laborers in the Boston area was settled yesterday, enabling contractors to begin pouring the foundation for Quincy House tomorrow, and to resume work on three other large construction projects in the University.

Mediation by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration has been in progress since the second week of the strike. Hod-carriers and construction laborers' unions agreed yesterday to accept a 30 cents an hour wage increase over a three year period, half of their original demands.

Almost 200 laborers will return to work on the local projects tomorrow. While all of them do not belong to the striking unions, many had been laid off because work was held up without day laborers.

In addition to the Quincy project, the strike had halted progress on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the International Legal Studies Center, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute on Divinity Ave.

Cecil A. Roberts, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, reported earlier in the week that the Legal Studies Center was the only project not completely shut down. Roberts said that he felt that an end to the strike this week would make it possible for lost time to be made up on all projects.