Sixty-four committees to combat defamation have been organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress, a report on the first year’s activities disclosed today.
A total of 268 defamation cases has been handled, some of which were considered of historic importance. Cases taken care of during February, March and April of this year numbered 138.
The report told of “encouraging progress” in the fight against employment discrimination.
“A number of important employers of labor have reinstated a large number of Jewish workers as a result of our meditative intervention,” the account said.
The boycott against Nazi Germany was revealed to be encountering difficulties, partially because of the government’s lax marking regulations for imported goods. Another reason why the boycott is not going as well as desired, the report said, is that “our boycott committee is only permitted to exert moral pressure and persuasion against Jews who persist in boycott violations.”
Campaigns for the relief of stricken Jewry have been conducted in forty-seven communities after contact was established with 215 localities.
“The educational work done in this respect cannot be exceeded,” the report said.
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