In addition to the Conciliation Boards, there is a variety of arrangements which, although not coming within the definition of a Conciliation Board, provide definite procedure for the consideration and settlement of differences. Two examples may be given: the highly organized cotton industry has not adopted conciliation board procedure, but the “Brooklands” Agreement, signed in 1893, at the termination of the great contest, provided for many years machinery for settlement of disputes in the spinning branch of the industry. This Agreement has now been superseded by new provisions for avoidance of disputes. As regards other sections of the industry, the principal agreement is that existing between the North and North-East Lancashire Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers’ Association and the Northern Counties’ Textile Trades Federation. Under this agreement, the procedure is similar to that adopted in the case of the Brooklands Agreement and provides for a meeting of representatives of employers and operatives in the branch of trade affected; if no settlement is arrived at, the dispute is to be brought before a joint meeting of the members of the Employers’ Association and the Amalgamated Association of Trade Unions formed in the section concerned; if this meeting fails to effect a settlement, then the matter is to come before a joint meeting of representatives of the Manufacturers’ Association and the Northern Counties’ Federation. Until all these steps have been taken and have failed, no strike or lock-out notices are to be given. An important feature is a provision that, in cases of stoppages of work, meetings of the representatives of the signatories shall be held at intervals of four weeks in Manchester until the dispute has been settled. Similarly, Conciliation Boards have not been adopted in the engineering trades. The principal agency for conciliation in these trades is that afforded by the “Terms of Settlement” signed in 1898 on the termination of the great dispute which had commenced in the previous year. This agreement, revised in 1907, provides, _inter alia_, for the discussion of grievances in the first instance by employers and workpeople or their representatives. Should a settlement not be effected by this method, a local conference of employers’ and workpeople’s associations may then be called to consider the matter, and if the question still remains unsettled, it can be referred to a central conference between the Executive Board of the Employers’ Federation and the Executives of the Trade Unions signatory to the agreement. No stoppage of work is permissible until this procedure has been fully carried out. An agreement dated May 20, 1919, amplified the previous agreements by the recognition of shop stewards and the institution of Works’ Committees.