‘9. Medical treatment, including midwifery and the means of healing, to be free. Free burial.
‘10. Progressive income and property taxes to meet all public expenditure, so far as these are to be covered by taxation. Duty of making one’s own return of income and property. Succession duty to be graduated according to amount and relationship. Abolition of all indirect taxes, customs, and other financial measures which sacrifice the collective interest to the interests of a privileged minority.
‘For the protection of the working class the Social Democratic party of Germany demands—
‘1. An effective national and international protective legislation for workmen on the following bases:—
‘(a) Fixing of a normal working day of not more than eight hours.
‘(b) Prohibition of money-making labour of children under fourteen years.
‘(c) Prohibition of night work, except for those branches of industry which from their nature, owing to technical reasons or reasons of public welfare, require night work.
‘(d) An unbroken period of rest of at least thirty-six hours in every week for every worker.
‘(e) Prohibition of the truck system.
‘2. Supervision of all industrial establishments, investigation and regulation of the conditions of labour in town and country by an imperial labour department, district labour offices, and labour chambers. A thorough system of industrial hygiene.