5. Workmen's insurance to be taken over bodily by the Empire; and the workers to have an influential share in its administration. 6. Separation of the Churches and the State. (_a_) Suppression of the grant for public worship. (_b_) Philosophic or religious associations to be civil persons at law. 7. Revision of sections in the Civil Code concerning marriage and the paternal authority. (_a_) Civil equality of the sexes, and of children, whether natural or legitimate. (_b_) Revision of the divorce laws, maintaining the husband's liability to support the wife or the children. (_c_) Inquiry into paternity to be legalized. (_d_) Protective measures in favor of children materially or morally abandoned. 5. COMMUNAL PROGRAM OF THE BAVARIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY Inasmuch as our communes are hindered in the fulfilment of their economic and political duties by reactionary laws, we demand: A.--OF THE STATE: 1. A change of the municipal code, granting genuine local autonomy. A single representative chamber, a four-year term of office, one-half retiring every two years. Universal adult suffrage, secret ballot, the franchise not to be denied to those receiving public aid. 2. Radical tax reform, through the establishing of a uniform, progressive income and property tax, collected by the communes; local taxes to be assessed upon increment value; and prohibition of all taxes upon the necessaries of life. 3. A common-school law providing universal public education free from all religious bias, compulsory up to fourteen years of age. Obligatory secondary schools, the inclusion of social and political economy in their curricula; the defraying of expenses of pupils by the state. Substitution of professional supervision of schools for clerical supervision. 4. Enactment of a domiciliary law, in place of the present inadequate laws, providing for all the necessary sanitary and socio-political demands. Extending the municipalities' right of condemnation to the extent that towns may erect houses and schools, open streets, and make all necessary public improvements demanded by the public welfare. 5. Passage of a sanitary code. Regulation of sanitation in the public interests. Free medical attendance at births. Public nurseries. 6. The administration of public charities by the local authorities. B.--OF THE COMMUNE WE DEMAND: 1. Abolishing all taxes upon the rights of citizenship and of residence. Granting of full franchise rights after one year's residence. 2. Elections to be held on a holiday or on Sunday. 3. Pensions for communal employees. 4. The cost of local administration to be borne by local property or from additions to the direct state taxes. Abolishing of all indirect taxes. Denial of all public aid to the Church.