LABOUR IN VAIN.
DEPUTATION’S INTERVIEW WITH MUSSOLINI. lUuiteU Freae Association —By Eisotnc Ik leg rapt Copyright. J (Australian Frees Association.) LONDON, Jan. 13. The “Sunday Express’’ tells how Mr. Walter M. Citrine, secretary of the Trade Union Congress, and M. Sas.senback, secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions, _ went secretly to Rome to persuade Signor Mussolini to allow Italy to join the federation. The Labour leaders harangued for exactly 65 minutes, after which Signor Mussolini talked exactly 65 minutes. “You have the audacity to ask me to delegate the rule of my workpeople t 0 a handful of political fanatics at Amsterdam, ’ ’ the Italian dictator concluded. “You wasted and i do not know whose money.” Signor Mussolini then rang a bell — door opened—exuent Labourites.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5
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125LABOUR IN VAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5
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