hour.

In order to remuneratively employ the applicants, Parish, District,
Borough, and County Councils to be invested with powers to:

(_a_) Organise and undertake such industries as they may
consider desirable.

(_b_) Compulsorily acquire land; purchase, erect, or
manufacture buildings, stock, or other articles for
carrying on such industries.

(_c_) Levy rates on the rental values of the district, and
borrow money on the security of such rates for any of the
above purposes.

3. State pensions for every person over 50 years of age, and adequate
provision for all widows, orphans, sick, and disabled workers.

4. Free secular, moral, primary, secondary, and university education,
with free maintenance while at school or university.

5. The raising of the age of child labour, with a view to its ultimate
extinction.

6. Municipalisation and public control of the drink traffic.

7. Municipalisation and public control of all Hospitals and
Infirmaries.

8. Abolition of indirect taxation and the gradual transference of all
public burdens on to unearned incomes with a view to their ultimate
extinction.

The Independent Labour Party is in favour of adult suffrage, with full
political rights and privileges for women, and the immediate extension
of the franchise to women on the same terms as granted to men; also
triennial Parliaments and second ballot.

THE LABOUR PARTY

has no official programme. A semi-official programme, contained in a
statement of its Secretary, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., will be found
on page 425 of this book.

THE FABIAN SOCIETY

_Basis._--The Fabian Society consists of Socialists.

It therefore aims at the reorganisation of Society by the emancipation
of Land and Industrial Capital from individual and class ownership,
and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit. In
this way only can the natural and acquired advantages of the country
be equitably shared by the whole people.

The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property
in Land and of the consequent individual appropriation, in the form of
Rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as
for the advantages of superior soils and sites.

The Society, further, works for the transfer to the community of the
administration of such industrial Capital as can conveniently be
managed socially. For, owing to th