Socialism and Democracy in EuropeOrth, Samuel Peter
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Socialism and Democracy in Europe
Orth, Samuel Peter
Democracy; Socialism
1. Organization by the nation of a system of social insurance,
applying to the whole mass of industrial, commercial, and agricultural
workers, against the risks of sickness, accident, disability, old age,
and unemployment.
2. The insurance funds to be found without drawing on wages; as a
means towards this, limitation of the contribution drawn from the
wage-workers to a third of the total contribution, the two other
thirds to be provided by the State and the employers.
3. The law on workmen's accidents to be improved and applied without
distinction or nationality.
4. The workers to take part in the control and administration of the
insurance system.
(9) _Extension of the Domain and Public Services, Industrial and
Agricultural, of State, Department, and Commune_
1. Nationalization of railways, mines, the Bank of France, insurance,
the sugar refineries and sugar factories, the distilleries, and the
great milling establishments.
2. Organization of public employment registries for the workers, with
the assistance of the Bourses du Travail and the workmen's
organizations: and abolition of the private registries.
3. State organization of agricultural banks.
4. Grants to rural communes to assist them to purchase agricultural
machinery collectively, to acquire communal domains, worked under the
control of the communes by unions of rural laborers, and to establish
depôts and entrepôts.
5. Organization of communal services for lighting, water, common
transport, construction, and public management of cheap dwellings.
6. Democratic administration of the public services, national and
communal; organizations of workers to take part in their
administration and control; all wage-earners in all public services to
have the right of forming trade-unions.
7. National and communal service of public health, and strengthening
of the laws which protect it--those on unhealthy dwellings, etc.
(10) _Policy of International Peace and Adaptation of the Military
Organization to the Defense of the Country_
1. Substitution of a militia for the standing Army, and adoption of
every measure, such as reductions of military service, leading up to
it.
2. Remodeling and mitigation of the military penal code; abolition of
disciplinary corps, and prohibition of the prolongation of military
service by way of penalty.
3. Renunciation of all offensive war, no matter what its pretext.
4. Renunciation of every alliance not aimed exclusively at the
maintenance of peace.
5. Renunciation of Colonial military expeditions; and in the present
Colonies or Protectorates, withdrawn from the influence of
missionaries and the military régime, development of institutions to
protect the natives.
3. BASIS OF THE UNITED SOCIALIST PARTY OF FRANCE
_Adopted January 13, 1905_
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