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Canadian Group Organizes to Push Boycott, Combat Anti-semitic Agitation

October 25, 1933
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Resolutions to carry on an intensive boycott of German goods and to combat anti-Semitism in the Province of Quebec, were adopted Sunday at the conference for the formation of the Eastern division of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Sixty-four organizations and representatives of the Jewish communities in Quebec and the Maritime provinces participated in the conference.

A special committee was formed to organize and consolidate the boycott movement and also a special propaganda bureau for the purpose of offsetting anti-Semitic agitation.

I. Rabinowitch, editor of the Montreal Jewish Eagle, who spoke on anti-Semitism in Quebec, pointed out the necessity for a campaign of enlightenment and judicial action against the instigators of anti-Jewish incitement.

The conference also adopted a resolution favoring assistance for the settlement and colonization of Jews in Palestine.

Chaim Greenberg of New York, editor of Der Kaempfer; S. W. Jacobs, member of the Canadian Parliament, and other local leaders, addressed the conference.

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