C.i.o. Convention Cheers Rabbi Wise’s Call to Labor to Combat Anti-semitism in U.S.

Anti-Semitism is a challenge to democracy and therefore it is also a problem to the American way of life and especially to organized labor, Dr. Stephen S. Wise told the C.I.O. convention here last night. He urged American labor to combat the anti-Semitic efforts in this country.

Interrupted often by applause, Dr. Wise reminded the convention that anti-Semitism in Germany was the forerunner of anti-labor action by the Nazis. “Let us not forget that anti-Semitism was the winning election slogan of Nazism and that as soon as the Nazi won, they struck down first of all the labor unions, robbed them of their funds, imprisoned or slew their leaders,” he said.