(_e_) Orphanages. Establishments for children abandoned or cruelly ill-treated. 2. _Judicial reforms._ Office for consultations free of charge in cases coming before the law-courts, the industrial courts, etc. 3. _Regulation of work._ (_a_) Minimum wage and maximum working-day to be made a clause in contracts for communal works. (_b_) Intervention of trade associations in the fixing of rates of wages, and general regulation of industry. The Echevin of Public Works to supervise the execution of these clauses in contracts. (_c_) Appointment by the workmen's associations of inspectors to supervise the clauses in contracts. (_d_) Rigorous application of the principle of tenders open to all, for all services which, during a transition-period, are not managed directly. (_e_) Permission to trade-unions to tender, and abolition of security-deposit. (_f_) Creation of _Bourses du Travail_, or at least offices for the demand and supply of employment, whose administration shall be entrusted to trade-unions or labor associations. (_g_) Fixing of a minimum wage for the workmen and employees of a commune. 4. _Public charity._ (_a_) Admission of workmen to the administration of the councils of hospitals and of public charity. (_b_) Transformation of public charity and the hospitals into a system of insurance against old age. Organization of a medical service and drug supply. Establishment of public free baths and wash-houses. (_c_) Establishment of refuges for the aged and disabled. Night-shelter and food-distribution for workmen wandering in search of work. 5. _Complete neutrality of all communal services from the philosophical point of view._ 6. _Finance._ (_a_) Saving to be effected on present cost of administration. Maximum allowance of 6,000 francs for mayors and other officials. Costs of entertainment for mayors who must incur certain private expenses. (_b_) Income tax. (_c_) Special tax on sites not built over and houses not let. 7. _Public services._ (_a_) The commune, or a federation of communes composing one agglomeration, is to work the means of transport--tramways, omnibuses, cabs, district railways, etc. (_b_) The commune, or federation of communes, is to work directly the services of general interest at present conceded to companies--lighting, water-supply, markets, highways, heating, security, health. (_c_) Compulsory insurance of the inhabitants against fire; except where the State intervenes to do so. (_d_) Construction of cheap dwellings by the commune, the hospices, and the charity offices. V. ENGLAND GROWTH OF SOCIALISTIC SENTIMENT IN ENGLAND In 1885 the Earl of Wemyss made a speech in the House of Lords deploring the advancement of state interference in business and giving a résumé of the Acts of Parliament that showed how "Socialism" invaded St. Stephens from 1870 to 1885.