THE ENGINEERS' AGREEMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 5

THE ENGINEERS' AGREEMENT.

CHARGES AGAINST LEADERS WITHDRAWN. REFORM OF HOUSE OF LORDS FORESHADOWED. FRANCHISE BILL READ A SECOND TIME.

LONDON, May 24. The charge against the engineers' strike leaders has been withdrawn upon their undertaking to abide by the recent agreement. The Attorneygeneral warned them that if any further deliberate attempt was made to interfere with the production of munitions the offenders would be prosecuted with the utmost rigor. Mr Austen Chamberlain (Secretary for India), in a statement regarding India's admission to ihe Imperial War Cabinet, announced that indentured emigration from India would not be revised. Lerd Devonport has fixed the maximum retail price for oatmeal till the 18th of June at 5d per 1b in England and Ireland, and 4Jd in Scotland. The War Cabinet has decided to discontinue the erection of a large explosives factory at Bristol owing to the United States' entry into the war. The reform of the House of Lords is foreshadowed by Mr Walter Long's -statement in the House of Commons that the Government was so impressed by the results of the Speaker's electoral conference that it has been decided to establish some possible conference to discusse the report upon the Second Chamber. In the House of Commons, Mr Sanders' amendment to the Franchise Bill was defeated by 329 to 40, and the Bill was read a second time.'