HANUMAN, in Hindu mythology, the monkey-god, a cen tral figure in the Rdmayana. Child of a nymph by the wind-god, he aided Rama to recover his wife, Sita, from the demon Ravana, bridging the strait between India and Ceylon with boulders brought from the Himalayas, with the help of a host of monkeys. Temples in his honour are numerous, especially in southern India. He is also a popular deity in Japan, where many temples are erected to his honour and districts of towns bear his name. The hanuman monkey (Semnopithecus entellus), called after the god, is one of the commonest Indian monkeys. (See PRIMATES.) HANUSCH, FERDINAND (1866-1923), Austrian poli tician, was born Nov. 9, 1866 in Oberndorf, Silesia, the son of a poor Silesian weaver. After a childhood of crushing poverty, Hanusch became in 190o secretary of the Austrian Textile Work ers' Union. In 1907 he entered Parliament as a deputy. He was a pioneer of the Austrian trade union movement, especially in his own branch of industry, and did much to improve conditions for this class of labour, which were abnormally bad. In Oct. 1918 he became secretary of state of the new ministry of social wel fare, and was author of most of the social legislation of the period, including the eight-hour day, the Works Councils act, the law compelling employers of 14 hands or more to increase their staffs by 2o% in order to reduce unemployment, and the laws dealing with the unemployment dole. He was universally re spected for his personal probity and first-hand knowledge of labour problems and conditions. He died Sept. 28, 1923.