“There should accordingly be a Joint Board for each vocation that has separately organized itself, whether in a trade union or a professional association. Each Joint Board should be composed in equal numbers of representatives of the management and representatives of the trade union or professional association concerned. “The Right to Strike—that is to say, to refuse collectively to continue to serve—cannot be denied to any man or woman consistently with freedom. When it is no longer a question of resisting the profit-making capitalist, but merely of obtaining from the community as a whole equitable conditions of employment and a proper standard of life, it may be expected that the public opinion of the community as a whole will be accepted as decisive. “MUNICIPAL SOCIALIZATION.—The large part of the industries and services of each community which will be in the hands of the local authorities will be directed by the popularly elected councils of the several localities, with participation in the management of their own services by representatives of the workers by hand or by brain. In municipal administration of industries and services there should be the same kind of machinery of Joint Boards for collective bargaining as in the national industries. “THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF SOCIALISM.—The progressive disintegration of the capitalist system, which has been increasingly taking place during the years of war, and not less during the years of peace following the war, makes it ever more urgent that Labour should assume power in society. In the term Labour we include not merely the manual working wage-earners, but also the intellectual workers of all kinds, the independent handicraftsmen and peasant cultivators, and, in short, all those who co-operate by their exertions in the production of utilities of any kind. “1. It is an essential condition of this assumption of power by Labour that its ranks should be sufficiently united and that it should understand how to make use of the power in its hands. “2. Whilst the Congress repudiates methods of violence and all terrorism, it recognizes that the object cannot be achieved without the utilization by Labour of its industrial as well as its political power, and direct action in certain decisive conflicts cannot be entirely abandoned. At the same time, the Congress considers that any tendency to convert an industrial strike automatically into political revolution cannot be too strongly condemned. “3. The Socialist Commonwealth can come into existence only by the conquest by Labour of governmental power. The main work of a Labour Government will be to adopt, as the fundamental basis of its legislation and administration, both Democracy and Socialization.