It therefore aims at the re-organization of society by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit. In this way only can the natural and acquired advantages of the country be equitably shared by the whole people. The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in land and of the consequent individual appropriation, in the form of rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites. The Society, further, works for the transfer to the community of the administration of such industrial capital as can conveniently be managed socially. For, owing to the monopoly of the means of production in the past, industrial inventions and the transformation of surplus income into capital have mainly enriched the proprietary class, the worker being now dependent on that class for leave to earn a living. If these measures be carried out, without compensation (though not without such relief to expropriated individuals as may seem fit to the community), rent and interest will be added to the reward of labor, the idle class now living on the labor of others will necessarily disappear, and practical equality of opportunity will be maintained by the spontaneous action of economic forces with much less interference with personal liberty than the present system entails. For the attainment of these ends the Fabian Society looks to the spread of Socialist opinions, and the social and political changes consequent thereon. It seeks to promote these by the general dissemination of knowledge as to the relation between the individual and society in its economic, ethical, and political aspects. The following questions are addressed to Parliamentary candidates by the Fabians: Will you press at the first opportunity for the following reforms:-- I.--_A Labor Program_ 1. The extension of the Workmen's Compensation Act to seamen, and to all other classes of wage earners? 2. Compulsory arbitration, as in New Zealand, to prevent strikes and lockouts? 3. A statutory minimum wage, as in Victoria, especially for sweated trades? 4. The fixing of "an eight-hours' day" as the maximum for all public servants; and the abolition, wherever possible, of overtime? 5. An Eight-Hours' Bill, without an option clause, for miners; and, for railway servants, a forty-eight-hours' week? 6. The drastic amendment of the Factory Acts, to secure (_a_) a safe and healthy work-place for every worker, (_b_) the prevention of overwork for all women and young persons, (_c_) the abolition of all wage-labor by children under 14, (_d_) compulsory technical instruction by extension of the half-time arrangements to all workers under 18?