Epicurus
Reasonable
THE SOCIALIST PARTY PLATFORM of 1912
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The adoption of a graduated income 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 conservation of human resources, particularly of the lives and well-being of the workers and their families:
By shortening the work day in keeping with the increased productiveness of machinery.
By securing for every worker a rest period of not less than a day and a half in each week.
By securing a more effective inspection of workshops, factories and mines.
By the forbidding the employment of children under sixteen years of age.
By the co-operative organization of the industries in the federal penitentiaries for the benefit of the convicts and their dependents.
By forbidding the interstate transportation of the products of child labor, of convict labor and of all uninspected factories and mines.
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.
By establishing minimum wage scales.
By abolishing official charity and substituting a non-contributary 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 diseases, accidents and death.
