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Budapest, Hungary, May 30th.—Bela Kun told me that women helped considerably in establishing tho Communist Government of Hungary, but I observed that they are not yet holding high office in the Government. There are twenty women in the Budapest Soviet, and there are women heads of departments specialising in school and recreation work, but there is no woman Commissary. The work of women in public life in Budapest has been more for feminism than for revolution, and the feminist Leaders are not found among those working with the Communist Government.

Adel Spady, the Secretary of the Social Democratic Party and a member of the Budapest Soviet, now has her office in the House of Parliament, and arranged for me to meet twenty revolutionary leaders there. Maria Gardos, leader of the women tailors, Landone Vinese, president of the organized office employees, Palno Kuno, Secretary of the women iron workers, Therese Braddstein, shoe maker, who is at present editing the revolutionary woman's paper: "The Woman Worker," Kalica Horvash, book binder, and Jenka Gergoly, President of the Women Clerks' Trade Union, proved by their presence that the group was truly representative. The most interesting woman present however was an old woman of sixty years, Maria Chober, an "earth worker," and member of the Budapest Soviet, who, all her life has been speaking, organizing and working with the peasant women in the country, who hire themselves out as day labourers to dig ditches and other hard earth work. She is a speaker of great power, and for twenty-five years has travelled throughout the provinces of Hungary preaching Communism to these women diggers and has many