9. By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributory system of old age pensions, a general system of insurance by the State of all its members against unemployment and invalidism and a system of compulsory insurance by employers of their workers, without cost to the latter, against industrial disease, accidents and death. POLITICAL DEMANDS The absolute freedom of press, speech and assemblage. The adoption of a gradual income tax, the increase of the rates of the present corporation tax and the extension of inheritance taxes, graduated in proportion to the value of the estate and to nearness of kin—the proceeds of these taxes to be employed in the socialization of industry. The abolition of the monopoly ownership of patents and the substitution of collective ownership, with direct rewards to inventors by premiums or royalties. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women. The adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall and of proportional representation, nationally as well as locally. The abolition of the Senate and the veto power of the President. The election of the President and the Vice President by direct vote of the people. The abolition of the power usurped by the Supreme Court of the United States to pass upon the constitutionality of the legislation enacted by Congress. National laws to be repealed only by act of Congress or by the voters in a majority of the States. The granting of the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia with representation in Congress and a democratic form of municipal government for purely local affairs. The extension of democratic government to all United States territory. The enactment of further measures for general education and particularly for vocational education in useful pursuits. The Bureau of Education to be made a department. The enactment of further measures for the conservation of health. The creation of an independent Bureau of Health with such restrictions as will secure full liberty for all schools of practice. The separation of the present Bureau of Labor from the Department of Commerce and Labor and its elevation to the rank of a department. Abolition of the federal district courts and the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. State courts to have jurisdiction in all cases arising between citizens of the several States and foreign corporations. The election of all judges for short terms. The immediate curbing of the power of the courts to issue injunctions. The free administration of justice. The calling of a convention for the revision of the Constitution of the United States. Such measures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of government in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of socialized industry and thus come to their rightful inheritance.