For the fourth consecutive day Anti-Nazi Minute Men yesterday picketed the Jewish-owned B. Schackman & Co., novelty and favor establishment at Thirty-fourth street and Madison avenue, demanding that the firm discontinue selling German-made goods.
Wearing blue and gold overseas caps, the Minute Men bore signs requesting the public not to buy in the Schackman store, reputed to be one of the largest retail and wholesale novelty shops in the country. Picketing went on peacefully and will be continued until Schackman capitulates, the Minute Men said.
Schackman yesterday admitted that forty per cent of the goods in his store are of German origin but insisted he can find no substitutes for Nazi-made articles. Until the inception of the Hitler regime, he said, all his goods were German made.
To the demand that he refrain from selling any more German goods, Schackman said: “We might as well close up and go out of business.” He claimed that before a sale is consummated the prospective customer is told the origin of the article.
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