Severance of political and diplomatic relations with Germany was urged upon Canada in a resolution adopted here by the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress, representing 100,000 workers in the dominion.
The Congress, at its session last night, also called upon all local and affiliated unions to use every effort to discourage the sending of Canadian athletes to the Olympics in Germany next year as a protest against the anti-labor attitude of the Hitler regime. Refusal to purchase German-made products until labor in Germany is again set free and the persecution of workers has ceased was advocated along with the discouraging of raw materials sale to Germany.
A proposal that political refugees be admitted to Canada was defeated on the grounds that such action might open the door to “wholesale immigration.”
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