Suppression of measures restricting any of the liberties.

(_a_) Application of the elective principle to all jurisdictions. Reduction of the number of magistrates.

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(_b_) Justice without fees; State-payment of advocates and officials of the Courts.

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(_c_) Magisterial examination in penal cases to be public. Persons prosecuted to be medically examined. Victims of judicial errors to be indemnified.

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Provisionally; organization of a national militia.

11. _Suppression of hereditary offices, and establishment of a Republic._

(_b_) Pecuniary aid from the public authorities for the organization of labor secretariates by workmen and employers.

2. _Legal recognition of associations, especially--_

(_b_) Reform of the law on friendly societies and co-operative societies and subsidy from the public authorities.

(_c_) Repression of infringements of the right of combination.

3. _Legal regulation of the contract of employment._

Extension of laws protecting labor to all industries, and especially to agriculture, shipping, and fishing. Fixing of a minimum wage and maximum of hours of labor for workers, industrial or agricultural, employed by the State, the Communes, the Provinces, or the contractors for public works.

Intervention of workers, and especially of workers' unions, in the framing of rules. Suppression of fines. Suppression of savings-banks and benefit clubs in workshops. Fixing of a maximum of 6,000 francs for public servants and managers.

4. _Transformation of public charity into a general insurance of all citizens--_

(_b_) against disablement (sickness, accident, old age);

(_c_) against death (widows and orphans).

(_a_) Abolition of indirect taxes, especially taxes on food and customs tariffs.

(_c_) Progressive income-tax. Taxes on legacies and gifts between the living (excepting gifts to works of public utility).

(_d_) Suppression of intestate succession, except in the direct line and within limits to be determined by law.

6. _Progressive extension of public property._

The State to take over the National Bank. Social organization of loans, at interest to cover costs only, to individuals and to associations of workers.

Abolition, on grounds of public utility, of private ownership in mines, quarries, the subsoil generally, and of the great means of production and transport.