Whether the Belgians win or lose will not affect the momentum of the movement. If they win, general strikes for a few years will take a predominantly political character, and we shall see the general political strike resumed in Hungary within a few months and doubtless declared in Prussia before many years. If they lose these British, French and Italian movements toward economic general strikes will have the field. The historian of the future when writing of our generation will have to give a central position—perhaps _the_ central position—to the general strike. ----- Footnote 1: See THE SURVEY for October 5, 1912. Footnote 2: It is now reported that the opponents of the law, which goes into effect August 1, have started an effort to secure the 19,535 signatures necessary for a petition to have the law submitted to a referendum vote. Footnote 3: Drawn from a case record of the New York Charity Organization Society. Footnote 4: Number based not on total number of cases but on scholarship, conduct and attendance cases, respectively. Footnote 5: Most of the quotations here given are taken from Songs from the Ghetto. By Morris Rosenfeld. Translated into prose by Leo Wiener. Copeland & Day, Boston. 1898. Price $1.00. Footnote 6: Rosenfeld’s poetry in this respect is the antithesis of that of Arturo Giovannitti. See THE SURVEY of November 2, 1912. Footnote 7: Pendulum. Footnote 8: I work and work and work—without end; I am busy and busy and busy at all times. Footnote 9: The Counting—the forty-nine days of the Feast of the Seven Weeks. Footnote 10: My Little Sister. By Elizabeth Robins. Dodd, Mead and Co. 344 pp. Price $1.25. By mail of THE SURVEY $1.37. Footnote 11: Of 478 defendants, fifty-three women are involved or implicated. Of those, eighteen are found not guilty, are dismissed, or cases are pending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.