The Federation of Lithuanian Merchants formed about a year ago, with Government assistance, which aims at ejecting Jews from trade, industry and artisanship in Lithuania, has adopted a resolution at its first Congress held here declaring its intention to wrest trade, industry and artisanship out of Jewish hands.
The Congress has decided to approach the Government to ask it for a special fund to assist Lithuanian merchants to fight Jewish competition, and to issue instructions that all orders for goods and work placed by State and local Government bodies should be given only to Christian merchants and industrialists. The complete prohibition of trading and work on Sundays has also been demanded. All the speeches delivered at the Congress were strongly anti-Jewish.
In an editorial dealing with the Congress, the Jewish daily here, the “Yiddishe Stimme”, warns the leaders of the Federation not to venture on the dangerous decline of chauvinism, antisemitism and economic boycott.
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