7. The direct employment of labor by all public authorities whenever possible; and, whenever it is not possible, employment only of fair houses, prohibition of sub-contracting, and payment of trade-union rates of wages? 8. The amendment of the Merchant Shipping Acts so as (_a_) to secure healthy sleeping and living accommodation, (_b_) to protect the seaman against withholding of his wages or return passage, (_c_) to insure him against loss by shipwreck? II.--_A Democratic Budget_ 9. The further taxation of unearned incomes by means of a graduated and differentiated income-tax? 10. The abolition of all duties on tea, cocoa, coffee, currants, and other dried fruits? 11. An increase of the scale of graduation of the death duties, so as to fall more heavily on large inheritances? 12. The appropriation of the unearned increment by the taxation and rating of ground values? 13. The nationalization of mining rents and royalties? 14. Transfer of the railways to the State under the Act of 1844? III.--_Social Reform in Town and Country_ 15. The extension of full powers to parish, town, and county councils for the collective organization of the (_a_) water, (_b_) gas and (_c_) electric lighting supplies, (_d_) hydraulic power, (_e_) tramways and light railways, (_f_) public slaughter-houses, (_g_) pawnshops, (_h_) sale of milk, (_i_) bread, (_j_) coal, and such other public services as may be desired by the inhabitants? 16. Reform of the drink traffic by (_a_) reduction of the number of licenses to a proper ratio to the population of each locality, (_b_) transfer to public purposes of the special value of licenses, created by the existing monopoly, by means of high license or a license rate, (_c_) grant of power to local authorities to carry on municipal public houses, directly or on the Gothenburg system? 17. Amendment of the Housing of the Working Classes Act by (_a_) extension of period of loans to one hundred years, treatment of land as an asset, and removal of statutory limitation of borrowing powers for housing, (_b_) removal of restrictions on rural district councils in adopting Part III. of the Act, (_c_) grant of power to parish councils to adopt Part III. of the Act, (_d_) power to all local authorities to buy land compulsorily under the allotments clauses of the Local Government Act, 1894, or in any other effective manner? 18. The grant of power to all local bodies to retain the free-hold of any land that may come into their possession, without obligation to sell, or to use for particular purposes?