(Maria) May Brodney previously known as May Francis (13 April 1894 – 21 August 1973) was an Australian labour activist and a founder member of the Communist Party of Australia in Melbourne.
She endeavored to organise women workers[2] and she became a member of the unions executive.
She was the union's representative on the Trades Hall Council, the Underclothing Board and the Court of Industrial Appeals.
Brodney and her husband bought a log-cabin called "Appin" in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Evelyn.
[6] Her husband founded a company dealing in car tyres that went bankrupt.