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 woman's paper called 'The Woman Worker' with a circulation of several hundred thousand copies, and the domestic employees also organized and had a paper of their own. In Budapest alone this organization of domestic workers had forty thousand members and branches in twenty-live provinces. Between the first and second revolution most of the women worked with the Social Democrats, as the overwhelming majority of women were socialist, but not communist. When however Karolyi formed the new government, with Bela Kun then in prison, the union of Social Democrats and Communists was brought about. There should not be any separate woman's movement, as this is contrary to the teachings of Marx. In the occupied regions hundreds of women are in prison, and how many have been hung by the Czechs we do not know, but we have direct knowledge that the Roumanians and Czechs have committed horrible physical crimes upon women as well as upon men.

"No, none of our leaders or trade union secretaries were paid, as we always believed that it was the plan of the capitalists to establish a sort of aristocracy of labour, which would combat the real revolution through its desire to retain its paid positions. We have been fortunate in having no so-called 'democratic' period, as we went from feudalism to communism without it."

Maria Gosthonyi, a very beautiful young leader, became a convinced socialist when quite a child from her observations of the way the peasants worked on her father's estate. "I never worked with the feminists but joined the Socialist Party at the beginning of the war, and volunteered for the front as a Red Cross Nurse," said Miss Gosthonvi. "All the four years of the war I was talking to the soldiers against the killing and for socialism, and held meetings in the hospitals to which the soldiers came in crowds. Three times I was brought up before the military tribunal and asked about my activities, but I refused to answer questions, and was released. I am against militarism and violence, but when the revolution comes it seems best to