The statement marked the culmination of a campaign by Hearn executives to eliminate Nazi-made goods from the shelves of their store.
In a previous communication to the editors of the Jewish Daily Bulletin on February 13, this year, Maurice Levin, president of Hearn, pointed out his store was making every possible effort to eliminate German-manufactured products.
In his letter Mr. Levin said in part: “Our policy is not to buy or offer for sale any German goods in the Hearn establilshment until such time as Germany is no longer dominated by such tyrants at Hitler.”
Mr. Levin further stated: “We find that we have possible $10,000 or $12,000 worth of merchandise in the house, which we are endeavoring to dispose of at any price, and when these goods are disposed of, this store will have no further German goods to offer.”
CONGRESS HAILS MOVE
Commenting on the move of the department store, Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the boycott committee, said that “it is recognition of the fact that there has been a confinuous increase in the policy of oppression instituted by the Hitler regime against all sections of its population.”
In connection with the first anniversary of the Hitler regime, the American Jewish Congress will initiale an intensive redio program for the promotion of the boycott movement. The first broadcast is to take place on the eve of the Hitler anniversary, March 4, over Station WEVD. Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum will discuss “A Year of Hitlerism.”
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