Establishment of an international boycott organization to fight Hitlerism until the Nazi regime fell or all rights were restored to labor, churches rreed, anti-Jewish legislation revoked, Masonic property restored and German women freed again, was decided upon today at the opening session of the international boycott conference.
The new organization will be known as “The World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights,” and will have its headquarters in London.
FIGHT TO THE FINISH
The five-point resolution adopted by the conference declared:
1. We will vigorously prosecute and enforce economic sanctions against Germany in every country until Hitlerism has been driven from power by the force of world opinion, as expressed in economic isolation or until the Hitler regime has restored to German labor all the rights taken from it by the Nazis.
2. Until the Hitler regime has abandoned attempts to interfere by state authority or to destroy the Catholic and Protestant Churches, or to discord or repudiate the Old Testament or parts of the New.
3. Until the Hitler government has repealed all recent laws and decrees against its Jewish citizens and residents and ceased to persecute and discriminate against the Jews in an attempt to exterminate them.
4. Until the property and rights of the Masonic lodges have been restored.
5. Until womanhood in Germany has been reinstated and full rights and privileges restored as in pre-Hitlerite Germany.
Other resolutions adopted by the conference fixed the composition of the governing body of the new organization and the nature of the local groups in every country; provided for London headquarters and for raising a preliminary sum of $150,000 to carry on the work. Some $10,000 has already been subscribed to this fund.
GUEDALLA RENEWS PLEDGE
On behalf of the Jewish groups represented at the conference, Philip Guedalla, Anglo-Jewish historian and boycott leader, condemned the Nazi regime and pledged Jewish allegiance to the boycott.
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