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APPENDIX XX

PROGRAMME OF THE SLOVAK NATIONAL PARTY,

Drawn up at a meeting in Turócz St. Márton, in January 1905.

(1)  Unity, indivisibility and independence of Hungary.

(2)  Equal rights for the Slovak language in schools and law-courts, in accordance with Law XLIV. of 1868.

(3)  Revision of the Church Laws.

(4)  Complete autonomy of the various Churches.

(5)  The State to promote the developmentjof elementary schools.

(6)  Erection of industrial and agricultural schools, with Slovak language of instruction.

(7)  Checks to be placed on the subdivision of small peasant holdings.

(8)  Revision of taxation to suit the economic needs of the Slovak districts.

(9)  Regulation of the rivers of North Hungary.

(10) Introduction of new law regarding agricultural servants.

(11) Regulation of the relations between workman and employer.

(12)  Check to usury in all its forms.

(13)  State aid for co-operative societies.

(14)  Reform of the administration.

(15)  Communal and district autonomy.

(16)  Speedy and impartial justice.

(17)  Universal suffrage and electoral redistribution.

(18)  Free right of assembly and association.