Socialism and Democracy in EuropeOrth, Samuel Peter
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Socialism and Democracy in Europe
Orth, Samuel Peter
Democracy; Socialism
Right of popular initiative and referendum in legislative, provincial,
and communal matters.
5. _Reform of education._
(_a_) Primary, all-round, free, secular, compulsory instruction at
the expense of the State. Maintenance of children attending the
schools by the public authorities. Intermediate and higher instruction
to be free, secular, and at the expense of the State.
(_b_) Administration of the schools by the public authorities, under
the control of School Committees elected by universal suffrage of both
sexes, with representatives of the teaching staff and the State.
(_c_) Assimilation of communal teachers to the State's educational
officials.
(_d_) Creation of a Superior Council of Education, elected by the
School Committees, who are to organize the inspection and control of
free schools and of official schools.
(_e_) Organization of trade education, and obligation of all children
to learn manual work.
(_f_) Autonomy of the State Universities, and legal recognition of the
Free Universities. University Extension to be organized at the expense
of the public authorities.
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.
8. _Extension of liberties._
Suppression of measures restricting any of the liberties.
9. _Judicial reform._
(_a_) Application of the elective principle to all jurisdictions.
Reduction of the number of magistrates.
(_b_) Justice without fees; State-payment of advocates and officials
of the Courts.
(_c_) Magisterial examination in penal cases to be public. Persons
prosecuted to be medically examined. Victims of judicial errors to be
indemnified.
10. _Suppression of armies._
Provisionally; organization of a national militia.
11. _Suppression of hereditary offices, and establishment of a
Republic._
II.--ECONOMIC PROGRAM
A.--_General Measures_
1. _Organization of statistics._
(_a_) Creation of a Ministry of Labor.
(_b_) Pecuniary aid from the public authorities for the organization
of labor secretariates by workmen and employers.
2. _Legal recognition of associations, especially--_
(_a_) Legal recognition of trade-unions.
(_b_) Reform of the law on friendly societies and co-operative
societies and subsidy from the public authorities.
(_c_) Repression of infringements of the right of combination.
3. _Legal regulation of the contract of employment._
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