(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Negotiations between Col. Josiah Wedgwood, British labor leader, and Otto Bauer and Karl Seitz, leaders of the Austrian Socialist Party, concerning a change in the attitude of the party toward the Palestine upbuilding, ended in failure, it was learned today.
Bauer refused to issue a statement concerning the Palestine upbuilding, declaring that it was “a bourgeois affair.” When Col. Wedgwood pointed out to him that the Jewish Palestine movement has the sympathy of the western socialist labor leaders, Bauer declared that apparently these leaders were not “perfect socialists.”
In Viennese socialist circles it was claimed that Bauer is opposed only to the non-socialist method of upbuilding Palestine.
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