And while making the foregoing demands upon the State and National Government, we will endeavour to associate our own labours:
XIX. To establish co-operative institutions such as will tend to supersede the wage system, by the introduction of a co-operative industrial system.
XX. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work.
XXI. To shorten the hours of labour by a general refusal to work for more than eight hours.
XXII. To persuade employers to agree to arbitrate all differences which may arise between them and their employees, in order that the bonds of sympathy between them may be strengthened and that strikes may be rendered unnecessary.
BASIS OF THE FABIAN SOCIETY
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 the monopoly of the means of production in the past, industrial inventions and the transformation of surplus income into capital have mainly enriched the proprietary class, the worker being now dependent on that class for leave to earn a living.