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APPENDIX II
The following is the full text of the tentative programme sug-
gested by the party led by Mr. Lansbury and published in the Lon-
don Herald some eighteen months previous to the publication of the
Report on Reconstruction of the Labour Party.
CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH AND EQUALITY OF
INCOME.
a. Expropriation of private landowners and capitalists. No com-
pensation beyond an ample provision against individual hard-
ship.
b. All men and women willing to work to be paid, even when their
work happens to be not needed, just as soldiers are paid when
they are not fighting. Equal payment for all to be the result at
which reorganization shall aim.
c. Instead of the present capitalistic methods of production

OWNERSHIP BY THE STATE: MANAGEMENT BY THE WORKERS.

This shall be applied immediately to the case of Mines, Rail-
ways, Shipping, Shipbuilding, and Engineering, Electric Light
and Power, Gas and Water.

d. The National properties in Mines, Railways, Shipping, Land so
created to be leased to the Unions on conditions which will
ensure every member at present money value a

MINIMUM REAL INCOME OF ONE POUND A DAY.


ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE OF ALL MEN AND WOMEN.
Until such time as the whole industry of the country can be or-
ganized upon the basis indicated above, the workers in industries
not embraced in the above list -- including those whose work is that
of the household and the bringing up of children -- shall be assured
a similar standard of life by one, or a combination, of the following
means:
a. A high minimum wage guaranteed by the State through a levy
upon the profits of unexpropriated capitalists.
b. Continuation and increase of present war allowances to the
women and children of soldiers' families.
c. Increase of maternity benefits and maintenance of children dur-
ing school age.
d. Great increase of old-age pensions beginning at an earlier age
than at present.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of British Labour Programmes. Contributors: Norman Angell - author. Publisher: B. W. Huebsch. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1919. Page Number: 315.
    
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