LABOUR LEADERS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 9

LABOUR LEADERS

e ■ INTERVIEW MUSSOLINI IN ROME AND MEET WITH SEVERE REBUFF ■ .- (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. January 13, 11.5 p.m.) London, January 13. The “Sunday Express” tells a story of Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trade Union Congress, and Sassenback, secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions, secretly going to Rome to persuade Signor Mussolini to allow Italy to join the federation. The Labour leaders harangued for exactly sixty-five minutes, after which Signor Mussolini talked for exactly sixty-five minutes. He concluded: “You have the audacity to ask me to delegate the rule of my workpeople to a handful of political fanatics at Amsterdam. You have wasted your time. I do not know whose money I .” Signor Mussolini then rang the bell, the door opened, and exit the Labourites- ' ;