Resolutions calling for action to take Lithuanian trade out of Jewish hands have been adopted at a conference of Lithuanian merchants and industrialists opened here to-day, at which the Prime Minister, M. Tubelis (Nationalist), who is also Minister of Finance and of Trade and Industry, delivered an address expressing approval of the idea of Lithuanisation of the trade and industry of the country. Several other speakers who addressed the conference demanded an anti-Jewish boycott.
No Jewish journalists were admitted to the Conference.
The Government is stated to have expressed its readiness to carry into effect the resolutions adopted by the Conference.
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