Cio President Strongly Condemns Nazi Atrocities Against Jews of Europe

A statement strongly condemning the Nazi atrocities against the Jews of Europe was issued here today by Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. A similar statement was issued earlier this week by American Federation of Labor president William Green.

Mr. Murray’s statement read, in part, as follows:

“The civilized world is filled with horror and anger at the slaughter of whole generations and whole peoples now being carried on by order of Adolf Hitler, Europe, and particularly its eastern regions, has been turned into a gigantic shambles by the Nazis, who are daily killing thousands of men, women and children to satisfy an insane bloodlust. The conduct of Nazi Germany’s armies and Gestapo hangmen in the occupied countries and in the territories they have invaded mark them as the our as the greatest curse that has ever afflicted mankind. No parallels in the history of brutality suffice to describe the massacre of Jews and of civilians of all nationalities where the Nazi war machine has entered.

“This brutality is part of a calculated plan, part of the basic program of the Axis to enslave and destroy all peoples. In the organized mass slaughter in Axis held territories, we can see the future that is planned for our own country and our own people should Hitler win. In answer to this mass horror now being inflicted on our brothers and sisters in Europe, we pledge in the name of humanity to redouble our work for the utter destruction of Nazism and all its legions of death throughout the Axis…We join with the leaders of all the United Nations in tolling the Axis murderers that they will be tried and punished with the utmost severity for their crimes.”