SUMMARY 
The Labour Party asks for power. If granted power, it will use 
it both to lay the foundations of a new social order, and to relieve 
immediate distress, by carrying out, as rapidly as Parliamentary 
opportunity permits, the policy embodied ‘in ‘“ Labour and the Nation,”’ 
of which the following legislative and administrative measures are a 
summary :— 
I.—INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION 
1. The Repeal of the Trade Unions Act and the Restoration of Trade 
Union Rights. 
2. The establishment of a 48-hour week. 
3. The improvement and extension of Factory Acts, Mines Regulation 
Acts, Workmen’s Compensation Acts, Merchant Shipping Acts, 
Minimum Wage Acts, and other industrial legislation. 
4. The establishment and enforcement of international labour standards. 
IL—UNEMPLOYMENT 
1. The establishment of adequate provision for unemployed workers, 
under the control of a National Authority. 
2. The amendment of the Unemployment Insurance Acts, the establish- 
ment. of the scale of benefits recommended by the Labour Party 
in its evidence before the Blanesburgh Committee, and the 
extension of the principle of Unemployment Insurance to classes 
of workers at present outside its scope. 
3. The withdrawal from the Labour market of children under 15, with 
the necessary provision of maintenance allowances. 
4. The improvement of the provision made for widows and orphans and 
for the veterans of industry. 
8. The repeal of the Eight Hours Act in the coal industry, 
6. The transference and migration of unemployed miners. 
7. The establishment of a superannuation scheme for aged miners. 
III.-THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE 
I. The establishment of a National Economic Committee to advise the 
Government as to economic policy, and of a National Development 
and Employment Board to prepare schemes for the development 
of national resources. 
The control of the Bank of England by a public Corporation, includ- 
ing representatives of the Treasury, the Board of Trade, Industry, 
Labour and the Co-operative Movement; the encouragement of 
Co-operative and Municipal banking ; the promotion of an Inter- 
national Conference, as proposed at Genoa in 1922, with a view 
to the regulation of the value of gold by international agreement; 
and the introduction of such further changes in the banking and 
financial system as will secure that the available supply of credit 
and savings is used to the greatest national advantage. 
3. The transference to public ownership of the coal, transport, power, 
and life insurance industries. 
4. The appointment of a Commission to prepare 'a scheme for the 
reconstruction of the cotton industry. 
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