Labor and Jewish Groups Join to Intensify Anti-nazi Boycott

A vigorous drive against the use of all German goods and services is to be launched at once, it became known yesterday after a joint meeting of the boycott committees of the Central Trades and Labor Council and the American Jewish Congress, at the council’s headquarters, 265 West Fourteenth street. The campaign will thus present a united front of American labor, liberal and Jewish organizations against the Nazi persecution.

President Joseph P. Ryan of the Central Trades and Labor Council, and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the national executive committee and of the boycott group of the American Jewish Congress, issued a statement after the meeting, announcing the formation of the Joint Boycott Enforcement Council.

TO WORK OUT DETAILS

At a meeting Tuesday details will be worked out for an intensification of the anti-Nazi movement and for making the boycott as widespread and effective as possible. Activities of all groups and individuals sympathetic with the aims of the boycott will be coordinated.

Importers, distributors, wholesale and retail merchants will be approached with a view to obtaining their cooperation The two collaborating bodies will also enlist the cooperation of other groups with similar aims.

THE COUNCIL MEMBERS

The Joint Council on Boycott Enforcement is comprised of the following from cooperating bodies; David Dubinsky, chairman of the subcommittee on boycott of the Central Trades and Labor Council; Morris Finestone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades; William B. Mahoney. James C. Quinn, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council: William Kohn, former Congressman Nathan D. Perlman, vice-president of the American Jewish Congress; Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the national executive committee of the American Jewish Congress and of its boycott committee; Jacob Chaitkin, Abraham Held and Emanuel H. Licht, members of the boycott committee of the American Jewish Congress.

In a statement he issued yesterday. Mr. Ryan said:

“As the Nazi regime in Germany, after completing its first year of unprecedented persecution against the trade union movement and the Jewish people, is not only continuing its repressive policies, but is intensifying its relentless warfare against the most precious ideals and achievements of humanity as is evident from the very latest dispatches announcing the strengthening of the boycott against German Jews, the realization is growing universal that the economic isolation of that iniquitous regime is the only effective weapon left to labor and to the representatives of civilized opinion in general.

BOYCOTT MUST GO ON

“The boycott movement, spontaneous in its origin, but made articulate by the American Federation of Labor at its last annual convention, must go forward until the German government recognizes the right of the working people of Germany to organize into bona fide unions of their own choosing and until Germany ceases its repressive policy of persecution of Jewish people.”

Mr. Ryan also made known the text of the resolution passed by the Central Trades and Labor Council last February, concurring with the action of the American Federation of Labor on boycott.

Dr. Tenenbaum yesterday expressed his gratification at Mr. Ryan’s part in forming the Joint Council on Boycott Enforcement which will be housed at the Central Trades and Labor Council.