The Blue Men, anti-Nazi crusading group under the command of Benjamin Lazare, will protest this afternoon between two and three o’clock at City Hall against the anti-Jewish boycott celebration scheduled on May 17 at Madison Square Garden. The celebration is being sponsored by the League of the Friends of New Germany and is undertaken to further the boycott of Jewish goods and the wares of stores abiding by the anti-Nazi boycott.
Lazare and his men will petition Mayor LaGuardia to stop the celebration. At 7:30 tonight, there will be an assembly of the Blue Men at their headquarters, 70 Thatford avenue, whence they will parade to Hopkinson and Dumont avenues there to burn German-made goods. Lazare states that more than a thousand dollars worth of German goods will be thrown on the pyre, and he expects a large turnout of his organization.
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