A Citizens’ Boycott Rally against Nazi Aggression, held at the Hippodrome tonight under the auspices of the Volunteer Christian Committee to Boycott Nazi Germany, heard a message from Dr. Eduard Benes, pre-Munich President of Czecho-Slovakia, calling on the democracies to join in resistance to Nazi aggression. Among those on the speakers’ list were Matthew Woll, Vice-president of the American Federation of Labor; Gustave Stroebel, president of the New York State Council of Industrial Organizations; Dr. Robert T. Searle, secretary of the Greater New York Federation of (Protestant) Churches; Dr. Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the League of Nations Association; Judge William Harman Black, Dr. Stephen S. Wise Otto Sattler, Dr. Guy Emery Shipler and Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, chairman of the Volunteer Christian Committee.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
