Harrison Brown, European representative of the Chicago Committee for the Defense of Human Rights Against Nazism, will address the Boycott Conference affiliated with the Chicago Committee, at the Labor Lyceum next Tuesday evening. Other speakers will include Dr. Charles Copeland Smith, Dr. Z. Lorber and Jacob Siegal, chairman.
State Senator Roy C. Woods has been elected chairman of the finance committee of the lawyers’ division. Mr. Woods appealed to the lawyers of Chicago to aid in the boycotting of Nazi-made goods and to support the activities of the Chicago Committee.
ADDRESSES WOMEN
One of the meetings addressed by Mr. Brown on his State tour was that of the Women’s Division at the Hotel LaSalle. Nearly 200 women heard the Englishman tear the mask off Nazism and reveal the pitiful condition of women and children in Germany. Miss Harriet, chairman of the Women’s Division, presided. Among the guests were Miss Mary MacDowell of the University of Chicago Settlement, Prof. Mary Gilson, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Mrs. Ada McKinley, Mrs. Lillian Summers, Mrs. William S. Hefferan, Mrs. Harriet Park Thomas, Mrs. Salmon O. Levinson, Mrs. Merle N. English, Miss Jean Duncan-Clark, Mrs. George Bass, Mrs. Thoma P. Kaufmann, Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb and Miss Amelia Sears.
In Springfield Mr. Brown addressed a Christian meeting at the Centennial Hall. More than 600 residents of the State capital attended and unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Nazi treatment of minority groups and further pledged themselves to refrain from purchasing all Nazi-made goods “so long as such inhumanities are known to continue.”
WOMAN A DISTRACTION
“The German woman,” Mr. Brown related, “according to the Nazi ideal, is but the distraction of the tired warrior. No section of the German community has been so dumped by Hitler as the female population.
“The gangster Nazi-regime of Hitler will last long enough to launch the war it is working for when it thinks it is strong enough to win it,” Mr. Brown charged “or the Nazi regime will be brought down by one of the active crises which is bound to occur as the result of such a crazy regime. The only way in which this all-important crisis can be precipitated is by a boycott. The situation in Germany today is becoming more and more difficult. The boycott makes it more difficult and the boycott is going to precipitate the crisis which is the only possible means of our escaping the indescribable horrors of another war.”
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