Abstract: An improvement in a partition wall construction having two spaced apart rows of wall board connected to flanged studs wherein studs are supportably engaged within opposingly spaced apart channels, a bottom channel opening upwardly with bottom portions of the studs residing therein and an upper channel opening downwardly with top portions of the studs residing therein. The improvement comprises a device for prevention of squeaking at stud and runner engagements when said partition well is subjected to racking forces. Said device comprising a plurality of clips each having in cross-section a hairpin-like configuration wherein an elongate plate portion terminates in a thickened base portion, said base portion having an angled plate portion including a first leg angling back toward the elongate plate, and then terminating in an outwardly angling second leg portion, said configuration forming a hairpin-like shape defining a slot between the elongate plate and angled plate portion.