(3) Unrestricted right of combination. (4) A normal working-day corresponding to the needs of society. Prohibition of Sunday labour. (5) Prohibition of labour of children, and of all women’s labour that is injurious to health and morality. (6) Laws for the protection of the life and health of workmen. Sanitary control of workmen’s dwellings. Inspection of mines, of factories, workshops, and home industries by officials chosen by the workmen. An effective Employers’ Liability Act. (7) Regulation of prison labour. (8) Workmen’s funds to be under the entire control of the workmen. PROGRAMME OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOUR OF AMERICA, 1885 I. To make industrial and moral worth, not wealth, the true standard of individual and national greatness. II. To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create; sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral, and social faculties; all the benefits, recreation, and pleasures of association; in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honours of advancing civilisation. In order to secure these results, we demand of the State: III. The establishment of Bureaus of Labour Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of the educational, moral, and financial condition of the labouring masses. IV. That the public lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers; not another acre for railroads or speculators: and that all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their full value. V. The abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labour, and the removal of unjust technicalities, delays, and discriminations in the administration of justice. VI. The adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of those engaged in mining, manufacturing, and building industries; and for indemnification to those engaged therein for injuries received through lack of necessary safeguards. VII. The recognition by incorporation of trades-unions, orders, and such other associations as may be organised by the working masses to improve their condition and protect their rights. VIII. The enactment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employees weekly, in lawful money, for the labour of the preceding week, and giving mechanics and labourers a first lien upon the product of their labour to the extent of their full wages. IX. The abolition of the contract system on national, State, and municipal works. X. The enactment of laws providing for arbitration between employers and employed, and to enforce the decision of the arbitrators. XI. The prohibition by law of the employment of children under fifteen years of age in workshops, mines, and factories. XII. To prohibit the hiring out of convict labour. XIII. That a graduated income-tax be levied. And we demand at the hands of the Congress: