1. There shall be established a District Board of such number of members as may be determined by the Durham Coalowners' Association and the representatives of the Durham County Mining Federation, with an independent chairman. The voting at the meetings of the Board shall be by sides.

2. The wages shall be determined in relation to the ascertainment of proceeds of the industry.

3. The percentage addition to basis rates shall not be less than 89, subject to efficient recoupment of deficiencies.

4. There shall be a subsistence allowance to make up the wages of low paid adult day-wage workers to 6s. 8½d. per shift, but no provision for extra payment to other persons receiving more than that sum.

5. The method of ascertainment to be determined by the parties, but the value of the allowances in the shape of free houses, or rent allowances, and free coals shall be treated as wages paid and not as other costs.

The sums required to make up the subsistence allowance shall also be treated as wages paid.

6. The wages payable from the resumption of work at the mines until the 28th February, 1927, shall be at the rate of 89 per cent. above basis rates. The wages payable in the month of March shall be determined by the ascertainment of proceeds for the month of January, 1927; for the month of April by the proceeds for the month of February, and so on.

7. This agreement to continue in operation for one year and thereafter subject to one month's notice given by either party.

The foregoing arrangements are conditional upon the acceptance of the following terms :—

8. For hewers 7½ hours per shift, plus one winding. For all other classes of underground workers eight hours per shift, plus one winding. Variations of county standards of pieceworkers to be fixed by the parties. The hours of deputies shall be 7½ per shift, plus one winding time; it being understood that if required they shall stay longer and he paid an equivalent wage for overtime.

9. Forty-nine hours per week, exclusive of meal times, for persons employed on the surface.

10. The 12½ per cent. which was granted to pieceworkers other than hewers on the reduction of hours (whether merged in the basis rates or not) no longer to apply.

11. The ratios for the division of proceeds to be 87 to wages and 13 to the owners.

12. Hewers and fillers shall, if required by the management, do the necessary stone and shift work at and about the face in all systems of working, and if required by the management shall work together and pool their earnings.

13. Where machine mining is applied the persons employed on this method, whether machine men, drillers, fillers, pullers-up of conveyors, or canchmen, shall, when required, work in conjunction with each other and all or any of them shall do any necessary work when required although it may be outside their ordinary work.

14. All seams where the management require shall be cavilled separately.

15. That the practice of sitting at the kist be abolished and that the men shall go straight into their working places as soon as authorised to do so by the deputy, and remain for the full hours of the shift.

16. That the present arrangement with respect to the minimum wage of pieceworkers be terminated and the matter further considered.

17. That machinery shall be set up without delay for the adjustment of piece-work rates and determination of other matters of dispute continually arising at the pits.

18. There is no disposition on the part of the owners to victimise any man on account of his action during the stoppage. With regard to employment of men, the owners are prepared to engage them as they are required, subject to the conditions that the owners cannot consent to discharge any man who was employed during the stoppage.