Dawa Ogre Reaches out over Nation

The DAWA, anti-Jewish boycott organization, now is established throughout the entire East, Willi Warnecke announced yesterday.

Warnecke, secretary of the DAWA and active member of the United German Societies and the League of Friends of New Germany-the sponsoring organizations of the boycott group-stated that plans have been made and DAWA societies are being formed in most of the large cities from Los Angeles to Boston.

LISTS 2,500 STORES

Warnecke set the number of stores and shops bearing the DAWA label at approximately 2,500 in and near New York, and he estimated the number of consumers adhering to the boycott in the hundreds of thousands. Of the latter, Warnecke said, only a small percentage have paid the $1 initiation fee required of all consumer members.

The spokesman for the DAWA said that “almost all” German American societies in this area have voted to support the DAWA. He mentioned as the strongest sources of bloc support the Plattdeutsche Verks Vereins of New York, which controls seventy-five large and influential societies; the same organization in Brooklyn, which controls forty-five societies; the Franz Siegel Order, controlling almost twenty lodges; and the German and Austrian War Veterans. He said that the Steuben Society, which has recently come out against all boycotts, either anti-Nazi or anti-Jewish, is pursuing its own plan in its fight against the boycott of German goods.

Warnecke listed as some of the more important centers in which the DAWA is actively operating: New York City, Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Newark, Trenton, Boston, Essex and Hudson counties, N.J., Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.

TAKE ANTI-BOYCOTT STAND

The German and Austrian War Veterans on Saturday passed resolutions to oppose the boycott. With delegates from New York, Newark, Elizabeth, Hudson County, Passaic, Paterson, and Allentown, Pa., in attendance, the meeting voted to join “comrades” in New York in the boycott fight. At the same meeting the members voted to make Fred Obermuller national commander. The group is incorporated in Washington, D.C.

Robert Gray Taylor, Senatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, has been an outspoken defender of the policies of the DAWA with respect to that group’s attacks on the anti-Nazi boycott. He has challenged for debate on the subject of the boycott Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church of New York, and Oswald Garrison Villard, both of whom have been recognized as outstanding champions of the boycott. Both refused, explaining they had other things to do. Protest against the boycott has become one of the principal planks in the Taylor platform.