19. The relief of the existing taxpayer by (_a_) imposing, for local purposes, a municipal death duty on local real estate, collected in the same way as the existing death duties, (_b_) collecting rates from the owners of empty houses and vacant land, (_c_) power to assess land and houses at four per cent. on the capital value, (_d_) securing special contributions by way of "betterment" from the owners of property benefited by public improvements? 20. The further equalization of the rates in London? 21. The compulsory provision by every local authority of adequate hospital accommodation for all diseases and accidents? IV.--_The Children and the Poor_ 22. The prohibition of the industrial or wage-earning employment of children during school terms prior to the age of 14? 23. The provision of meals, out of public funds, for necessitous children in public elementary schools? 24. The training of teachers under public control and free from sectarian influences? 25. The creation of a complete system of public secondary education genuinely available to the children of the poor? 26. State pensions for the support of the aged or chronically infirm? V.--_Democratic Political Machinery_ 27. An amendment of the registration laws, with the aim of giving every adult man a vote, and no one more than one vote? 28. A redistribution of seats in accordance with population? 29. The grant of the franchise to women on the same terms as to men? 30. The admission of women to seats in the House of Commons and on borough and county councils? 31. The second ballot at Parliamentary and other elections? 32. The payment of all members of Parliament and of Parliamentary election expenses, out of public funds? 33. Triennial Parliaments? 34. All Parliamentary elections to be held on the same day? THE PROGRAM OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION, 1906 OBJECT The Socialization of the Means of Production, Distribution, and Exchange, to be controlled by a Democratic State in the interests of the entire community, and the complete Emancipation of Labor from the Domination of Capitalism and Landlordism, with the establishment of Social and Economic Equality between the Sexes. The economic development of modern society is characterized by the more or less complete domination of the capitalistic mode of production over all branches of human labor.