418 Lord Beay [May 14, 



The party demands the institution of socialistic productive associa- 

 tions aided by the State under the democratic control of the working 

 people. The associations are to be started so extensively for manu- 

 facturing and farming, that out of them will grow the socialistic 

 organisation of collective labour. 



The socialistic labour party of Germany claims as the essential 

 conditions of the State : — 



1. Universal direct compulsory suffrage. 



2. Legislation directly by the people, decisions respecting peace 



and war by the people. 



3. Duty to share in the general defence of the country. Army 



of the people, instead of a standing army. 



4. Abolition of all exceptional laws, especially respecting the 



press, public meetings and associations. 



5. Jurisdiction by the people. Unpaid. 



6. General compulsory education by the State. Free in all its 



grades. Keligion declared to be a private interest. 



The immediate demands of the socialistic labour party of Germany, 

 within the limits of society as at present constituted, are as follows : — 



1. Extension of political rights and liberties in the direction of 



the preceding claims. 



2. Only a progressive income-tax for the State and the parish, 



instead of all existing indirect taxes, especially of those 

 which press on the people. 



3. Unlimited right of coalition. 



4. A normal day's labour in reference to the wants of society. 



Prohibition of Sunday labour. 

 6. Prohibition of children's labour and of all labour of women 

 hurtful to their health and morality. 



6. Laws protecting the life and health of labourers, sanitary 



inspection of labourers' dwellings. Control of mines, of 

 factories, of workshops, of home industry by ofdcials elected 

 by the working men. 



7. Eegulation of prison labour. 



the fundamental idea was as follows : Tlie German democrats can, alas ! only 

 utter good wishes for the final triumph of the social republic in France, but hope, 

 that the French democracy after its victory will give active help to its foreign 

 brethren who still sigh under the yoke, especially to the German proletariat; as 

 soon as the social republic is constituted in France, it can only last if the whole 

 of Europe is speedily rejoicing over the same blessings as France/ As Leipzig 

 is also mentioned in this passage, we are compelled to declare in the name of the 

 Leipzig socialists, that the whole report, as far as we know, is completely without 

 foundation. We feel ourselves powerful enough to settle matters with our 

 opponents, and do not want any extraneous assistance. And we do not believe 

 that German social democracy counts a single member who is of a different 

 opinion.— Leipzig, October the 22nd, 1879. A. Bebel, W. Liebknecht, F. W. 

 Fritzscho, Wilh. Hasenclevcr." 



