(6) Separation of the Church from the state.
_II. Measures against the poverty of the people_:
(1) Abolition of indirect taxes and introduction of direct income
taxes on a progressive scale;
(2) Abolition of the redemption payments, cheap credit, and
gradual transferring of the land to the people;
(3) The orders for the naval and military Ministers should be
filled in Russia and not abroad;
(4) The cessation of the war by the will of the people.
_III. Measures against oppression of labor by capital_:
(1) Protection of labor by legislation;
(2) Freedom of consumers' and producers' leagues and
trades-unions;
(3) An eight-hour workday and a regulation of overtime;
(4) Freedom of struggle against capital (freedom of labor
strikes);
(5) Participation of labor representatives in the framing of a
bill concerning state insurance of working-men;
(6) Normal wages.
Those are, Sire, the principal wants with which we have come to
you. Let your decree be known, swear that you will satisfy them,
and you will make Russia happy and glorious, and your name will be
branded in our hearts and in the hearts of our posterity for ever
and ever.
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