2. Maintenance of the children in elementary schools at the expense of the public bodies. 3. For secondary and higher education, the community to pay for those of the children who on examination are pronounced fit usefully to continue their studies. 4. Creation of a popular higher education. 5. State monopoly of education at the three stages; as a means towards this, all members of the regular and secular clergy to be forbidden to open and teach in a school. (6) _General recasting of the System of Taxation upon Principles of Social Solidarity_ 1. Abolition of every tax on articles of consumption which are primary necessaries, and of the four direct contributions;[1] accessorily, relief from taxation of all small plots of land and small professional businesses.[2] 2. Progressive income-tax, levied on each person's income as a whole, in all cases where it exceeds 3,000 francs (£120). 3. Progressive tax on inheritances, the scale of progression being calculated with reference both to the amount of the inheritance and the degree of remoteness of the relationship. 4. The State to be empowered to seek a part of the revenue which it requires from certain monopolies. (7) _Legal Protection and Regulation of Labor in Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture_ 1. One day's rest per week, or prohibition of employers to exact work more than six days in seven. 2. Limitation of the working-day to eight hours; as a means towards this, vote of every regulation diminishing the length of the working-day. 3. Prohibition of the employment of children under fourteen; half-time system for young persons, productive labor being combined with instruction and education. 4. Prohibition of night-work for women and young persons. Prohibition of night-work for adult workers of all categories and in all industries where night-work is not absolutely necessary. 5. Legislation to protect home-workers. 6. Prohibition of piece-work and of truck. Legal recognition of blacklisting. 7. Scales of rates forming a minimum wage to be fixed by agreement between municipalities and the working-class corporations of industry, commerce, and agriculture. 8. Employers to be forbidden to make deductions from wages, as fines or otherwise. Workers to assist in framing special rules for workshops. 9. Inspection of workshops, mills, factories, mines, yards, public services, shops, etc., shall be carried out with reference to the conditions of work, hygiene, and safety, by inspectors elected by the workmen's unions, in concurrence with the State inspectors. 10. Extension of the industrial arbitration courts to all wage-workers of industry, commerce, and agriculture. 11. Convict labor to be treated as a State monopoly; the charge for all work done shall be the wage normally paid to trade-unionist workers. 12. Women to be forbidden by law to work for six weeks before confinement and for six weeks after. (8) _Social Insurance against all Natural and Economic Risks_