Cease Racial Boycott, Nazi Leader Asks

The Jewish fear of the new economic boycott proclaimed by the Nazi Trade and Artisans Association to begin on March 23 and scheduled to continue until April 7, was somewhat allayed today by the Bavarian Minister of Economics Dr. Esser who spoke here today before the meeting of the Industrial Chamber of Nuremberg.

Dr. Esser declared that Jews had already been eliminated from the political life of Germany and are therefore unable to exercise publicly legal functions. He delivered a sharp warning against arbitrary interference “with economic developments which might mean the end of Germany’s economic life.”

Added point was lent to Dr. Esser’s speech by the fact that he spoke in Nuremberg, where Julius Streicher, notorious anti-Semite, publishes Der Stuermer, most vicious of all the anti-Semite sheets. The Nazi party in Nuremburg has taken the lead in the advocacy of the boycott against the Jews. Last week thousands of leaflets and pamphlets were distributed in Nuremberg, the burden of whose tone was, “Don’t Buy From Jews.”

ORDER OVERRULED

At the same time the chief of the Nazi Bavarian Labor Front overruled the order recently issued by the Middle Franconian Labor Front, in the region of Nuremberg to the effect that Jews could not be leaders of economic enterprises and must appoint “Aryan” substitutes. He declared that the order had no legal validity. Under the Nazi regime the head of each business enterprise is the official leader for the enterprise with important powers.

This official action against Stretcher, who is regarded as the most important leader of the Nazi boycott movement, is held to be a victory over the Nazi advocates of the boycott against the Jews, inspired by the revelations of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the commencement of the boycott, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency first revealed and which was later published in the world press.