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 and savings societies are generally encouraged by the local authorities, and that the State comes to their aid by subsidies of important sums of money. We cannot close this rapid survey without mentioning the existence of numerous Societies of Arts and Crafts and industries carried on at home. The oldest of these are the associations of silversmiths, which exist mostly in Moscow.

We would like to point out to the reader that we are not attempting to deal exhaustively with the social conditions in Russia. These are only notes taken in the course of the few weeks that we were able to spend in the land of the Revolution, and they are intended to give simply the impressions of bona fide observers who may claim some little experience in labour matters. It is only as such that these notes can have any value, and it would be rash indeed to try to draw many conclusions from them, so at least we shall have the prudence to reduce these conclusions to a minimum.