 Morris aided the DF using his artistic and literary talents ; he designed the group 's membership card , and helped author their manifesto , Socialism Made Plain , in which they demanded improved housing for workers , free compulsory education for all children , free school meals , an eight @-@ hour working day , the abolition of national debt , nationalisation of land , banks , and railways , and the organisation of agriculture and industry under state control and co @-@ operative principles . Some of his DF comrades found it difficult to reconcile his socialist values with his position as proprietor of the Firm , although he was widely admired as a man of integrity . The DF began publishing a weekly newspaper , Justice , which soon faced financial losses that Morris covered . Morris also regularly contributed articles to the newspaper , in doing so befriending another contributor , George Bernard Shaw . 
