the printer's trade union again. Representing the working class, he participated in the grand coalition talks intermediated by Allied representative George Clerk in early November. Peidl went into exile in Austria on 18 November 1919, after receiving an increasing number of death threats from far-right paramilitary groups. He resided in Vienna and Sankt Radegund bei Graz, where he worked as a proofreader, until his return to Hungary in November 1921, where he resumed his trade union activity. He became President of the General Consumer Cooperative. He actively participated in the restructuring process of the Social Democratic Party as a prominent member of the moderate and anti-communist wing. Peidl was elected Member of Parliament for Szeged (2nd constituency) in the 1922 parliamentary election. From 1922 to 1931 he led the Hungarian Social Democratic Party parliamentary group in the unicameral National Assembly then the House of Representatives. When the conservative cabinet of István Bethlen applied for a loan from the League of Nations in 1924, Peidl was a member of a Social Democratic delegation to London which urged the British government not to fulfill the request until the re-adoption of universal suffrage, the abolition of the numerus clausus and the extension of assembly act. Peidl retired from politics just before the 1931 parliamentary election. He died in Budapest on 22 January 1943. See also Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20) References 1873 births 1943 deaths Prime Ministers of Hungary Finance ministers of Hungary Social Democratic Party of Hungary politicians Members of the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International Leaders ousted by a coup Hungarian journalists Hungarian trade unionists People from Győr-Moson-Sopron County Hungarian people of German descent Hungarian people of the Hungarian–Romanian War