1. The collective ownership and democratic management of railroads, wire and wireless telegraphs and telephones, express services, steamboat lines and all other social means of transportation and communication and of all large scale industries. 2. The immediate acquirement by the municipalities, the States or the federal government of all grain elevators, stock yards, storage warehouses and other distributing agencies, in order to reduce the present extortionate cost of living. 3. The extension of the public domain to include mines, quarries, oil wells, forests and water power. 4. The further conservation and development of natural resources for the use and benefit of all the people: (_a_) By scientific forestation and timber protection. (_b_) By the reclamation of arid and swamp tracts. (_c_) By the storage of flood waters and the utilization of water power. (_d_) By the stoppage of the present extravagant waste of the soil and of the products of mines and oil wells. (_e_) By the development of highway and waterway systems. 5. The collective ownership of land wherever practicable, and, in cases where such ownership is impracticable, the appropriation by taxation of the annual rental value of all land held for speculation. 6. The collective ownership and democratic management of the banking and currency system. UNEMPLOYMENT The immediate government relief of the unemployed by the extension of all useful public works. All persons employed on such works to be engaged directly by the government under a workday of not more than eight hours and not less than the prevailing union wages. The government also to establish employment bureaus; to lend money to States and municipalities without interest for the purpose of carrying on public works, and to take such other measures within its power as will lessen the widespread misery of the workers caused by the misrule of the capitalist class. INDUSTRIAL DEMANDS The conservation of human resources, particularly of the lives and well-being of the workers and their families: 1. By shortening the workday in keeping with the increased productiveness of machinery. 2. By securing to every worker a rest period of not less than a day and a half in each week. 3. By securing a more effective inspection of workshops, factories and mines. 4. By forbidding the employment of children under 16 years of age. 5. By the co-operative organization of industries in federal penitentiaries and workshops for the benefit of convicts and their dependents. 6. By forbidding the interstate transportation of the products of child-labor, of convict labor and of all uninspected factories and mines. 7. By abolishing the profit system in government work, and substituting either the direct hire of labor or the awarding of contracts to co-operative groups of workers. 8. By establishing minimum wage scales.