A conference of leading Jewish organizations in Greater New York, sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, will be held next Thursday to intensify the boycott against Nazi-made products and to form a vigilante movement to check up on organizations purchasing Reich goods and secure a discontinuance of this practice.
Representatives of 500 fraternal, religious, social, labor and communal groups have been invited to gather in the auditorium of the Central Jewish Institute, 125 East Eighty-fifth street, it was announced by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the Boycott Committee. These organizations already have pledged support to the boycott at a conference held May 6.
The membership of the 500 groups, totaling more than 250,000 will be asked to enlist in the vigilantes movement.
In the statement announcing the June 28 rally, Dr. Tenenbaum explained that intensification of the boycott at this stage has become imperative since it may become a decisive factor in bringing to an end the apparently already-tottering Hitler regime.
“At no time has the moral expression of condemnation of Hitlerism, as exemplified in the boycott, had a better opportunity for important practical results than at present, when Germany by its betrayal of foreign confidence abroad and domestic confidence at home has practically united against her the nations of the world,” he said. “The boycott today can become the instrument of release for the German people from the yoke of medievalism.”
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