In Vienna, efforts to organize women into trade-unions have been made,--especially among the bookbinders, hat makers, and tailors. Outside Vienna, organization has been effected chiefly among the women textile workers in Silesia, as well as among the women employees of the state tobacco factories. The most thorough organization of women laborers is found in northern and western Bohemia among the glassworkers and bead makers. In Styria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Carinthia the organization of women is found only in isolated cases. Everywhere the organization of women is made difficult by domestic misery, which consumes the energy, time, and interest of the women. The organized Social-Democratic women laborers of German Austria have a permanent representation in the "Women's Imperial Committee." Of the 50,000 women organized in trade-unions, 5000 belong to the Social-Democratic party. The _Magazine for Workingwomen_ (_Arbeiterinnenzeitung_) has 13,400 subscribers. Women industrial inspectors have proved themselves efficient. It is to be expected as a result of the wretched economic conditions of the workingwomen that prostitution with its incidental earnings should be widespread in German Austria. Vienna is the refuge of those seeking work and seclusion (_Verschwiegenheit_). The number of illicit births in Vienna is, as in Paris, one third of the total number of births. For these and other reasons the "General Woman's Club of Austria" (_Allgemeine Österreiche Frauenverein_), founded in 1893 under the leadership of Miss Augusta Fickert, has frequently concerned itself with the question of prostitution, of woman's wages, and of the official regulation of prostitution,--always being opposed to the last. The International Federation for the Abolition of the Official Regulation of Prostitution (_internationale abolinistische Föderation_) was, however, not represented in German Austria before 1903; the Austrian branch of this organization being established in 1907 in Vienna. The middle-class women are doing much as leaders of the charitable, industrial, educational, and woman's suffrage societies to raise the status of woman in Austria. The most prominent members of these societies are: Augusta Fickert, Marianne Hainisch, Mrs. v. Sprung, Miss Herzfelder, v. Wolfring, Mrs. v. Listrow, Rosa Maireder, Maria Lang (editor of the excellent _Dokumente der Frauen_, which, unfortunately, were discontinued in 1902), Mrs. Schwietland, Elsie Federn (the superintendent of the settlement in the laborers' district in North Vienna), Mrs. Jella Hertzka, (Mrs.) Dr. Goldmann, superintendent of the Cottage Lyceum, and others.