7. Secularization of education. Compulsory attendance of public primary schools. No charges to be made for instruction, school requisites, and maintenance, in the public primary schools; nor in the higher educational institutions for those students, male and female, who in virtue of their capacities are considered fit for further training.
8. No charge to be made for the administration of the law, or for legal assistance. Judgment by popularly elected judges. Appeal in criminal cases. Indemnification of innocent persons prosecuted, arrested, or condemned. Abolition of the death-penalty.
9. No charges to be made for medical attendance, including midwifery and medicine. No charges to be made for death certificates.
10. Graduated taxes on income and property, to meet all public expenses as far as these are to be covered by taxation. Obligatory self-assessment. A tax on inheritance, graduated according to the size of the inheritance and the degree of kinship. Abolition of all indirect taxes, customs, and other politico-economic measures which sacrifice the interests of the whole community to the interests of a favored minority.
For the protection of the working-class the Social Democratic Party of Germany demands immediately—
1. An effective national and international legislation for the protection of workmen on the following basis:
(a) Fixing of a normal working-day with a maximum of eight hours.
(b) Prohibition of industrial work for children under fourteen years.
(c) Prohibition of night-work, except for such branches of industry as, in accordance with their nature, require night-work, for technical reasons, or reasons of public welfare.
(d) An uninterrupted rest of at least thirty-six hours in every week for every worker.