Delegates at a conference of the Federation of German and Austrian War Veterans in America held in Turn Verein Hall here were strong in their condemnation of the anti-Nazi boycott movement and pledge unanimous support to the anti-boycott organization, the German-American Protective Alliance.
Henry O. Spiers, who commands the German Legion in New York, an affiliant of the Federation, proposed a resolution urging support of the Protective Alliance which is said to have been organized recently by the United German Societies of Greater New York “to influence and induce all American citizens of German origin and other right-thing Americans to patronize such firms as are known to reject the boycott.”
That the veterans intend to play a role with their views in the forthcoming primary and general elections in New Jersey was evident in a resolution introduced by several posts in this state demanding that “no candidate be supported by the vote of former German or Austrian veterans who has in any way, shape or form, supported the boycott on German goods or otherwise confessed anti-German sentiment.”
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