The National Blue Shirt Minute Men, with headquarters in Brooklyn at Empire Manor, 70 That for avenue, decided last night to “have all German goods out of Brooklyn within a month.”
They begin operations on Saturday morning when they will picket stores on Flatbush avenue handling Nazi merchandise.
A list of twenty stores within a small area on Flatbush avenue was read to the Blue Shirts by Benjamin Lazare, national commander of the organization, who said that an ultimatum had been issued to the stores inspected and declared that if they had not sold out, thrown out, or otherwise removed all German made goods by midnight, Friday, they would be picketed until they did.
At the same meeting, a women’s auxiliary organization was formed under the leadership of Anna Ochs. 486 Sackman street, Brooklyn.
It was asserted that the organization had sworn in 7,000 members into four units in Brooklyn. Bronx, the East Side of Manhattan and Harlem.
The officers of the Blue Shirt group other than Lazare are Louis Raggio, senior vice-commander; Barney Moshes, junior vice-commander; Morris Goldstein, treasurer; Leon Klein, financial secretary; William Belloven, recording secretary; Sol Goldman, sergeant-at-arms, and trustees, Max Metz Max Sachs and Joel Steinbach.
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