"We, revolutionary Social Democrats, disdain to conceal our principles. We proclaim the class war. We hold that the lot of the worker cannot to any appreciable extent be improved except by a complete overthrow of this present capitalist system of society. The time for social tinkering has gone past. Government statistics show that the number of unemployed is slowly but surely increasing, and that the decreases in wages greatly preponderate over the increases, and everything points to the fact that the condition of your class is getting worse and worse.
"Refuse once for all to allow your backs to be made the stepping stones to obtain that power which they (the politicians) know only too well how to use against you.
"Scoff at their patronizing airs and claim your rights like men. Refuse to give them that which they want, i.e., your vote. Give them no opportunity of saying that they are your representatives. Refuse to be a party to the fraud of present-day politics, and
"Abstain from Voting."
THRIFT INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND FOR SAVINGS, INSURANCE, ETC., 1907
(From Chiozza Money—"Riches and Poverty," p. 56)
| Name of Institution | Number of Members | Funds—£ |
| Building Societies | 623,047 | 73,289,229 |
| Ordinary Friendly Societies | 3,418,869 | 19,346,567 |
| Friendly Societies having branches | 2,710,437 | 25,610,365 |
| Collecting Friendly Societies | 9,010,574 | 9,946,447 |
| Benevolent Societies | 29,716 | 337,393 |
| Workingmen's Clubs | 272,847 | 381,463 |
| Specially Authorized Societies | 70,980 | 532,717 |
| Specially Authorized Loan Societies | 141,850 | 897,784 |
| Medical Societies | 313,755 | 65,513 |
| Cattle Insurance Settlers | 4,029 | 8,570 |
| Shop Clubs | 12,207 | 1,349 |
| Total | 15,983,264 | 57,128,168 |
| Co-operative Societies, industry and trade | 2,461,028 | 53,788,917 |
| Business Co-operative Societies | 108,550 | 984,680 |
| Land Co-operative Societies | 18,631 | 1,619,716 |
| Total | 2,588,209 | 56,393,313 |
| Trade Unions | 1,973,560 | 6,424,176 |
| Workmen's Compensation Schemes | 99,371 | 164,560 |
| Friends of Labor Loan Societies | 33,576 | 260,905 |
| Grand Total of Registered Provident Societies | 21,301,027 | 193,660,351 |
| Railway Savings Banks | 64,126* | 5,865,351@ |
| Trustee Savings Banks | 1,780,214* | 61,729,588@ |
| Post Office Savings Banks | 10,692,555* | 178,033,974@ |
| Bank Total | 12,536,895 | 245,628,634 |
| Grand Total | 33,837,922 | 439,388,985 |
| * Depositions | @ Deposits | |
| In this table allowance must be made for those belonging to more than one society, and, of course, not all the depositors or members are workingmen, especially in the savings banks and building-societies. | ||
CONSTITUTION AND STANDING ORDERS OF THE INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY OF ENGLAND
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