LABOUR LEADERS’ FRUITLESS TRIP
TO INTERVIEW MUSSOLINI “YOU HAVE WASTED YOUR TIME,” SAYS DUCE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday l* a.m. ’ LONDON, Jan. 13. The “Sunday Express” tells the story of Mr Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trade Union Congress and Mr. Sassenback, secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions, going secretly to Rome to presuadc Mussolini to allow Italy to join the Federation of Labour. The leaders harangued, for exactly 65 minutes, after which Mussolini talked also for 65 minutes. He concluded: “You have the audacity to ask me to delegate the rulo of my workpeople to a handful of political fanatics at Amsterdam. You have wasted your time; I do not know whose money.” Mussolini then rang his bell, and the door was opened.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6810, 14 January 1929, Page 7
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