More energetic steps against Nazi activities in New York and environs will result from the “United Anti-Nazi Conference” being called at noon Saturday in the Irving Plaza Hall, Fifteenth street and Irving Place, the committee arranging the conference announced today from its headquarters at 870 Broadway.
“The movement is to be citywide, of the broadest possible character,” the committee announced. “In preliminary consultations we have worked out a four-point program on which, it is firmly believed, can be united 90 per cent of all those who sincerely oppose Fascism in general and Hitler’s brand of Fascism in particular.”
MAKE DECISIONS
The program, which will be suggested to the conference, calls for decision:
1. To aid all victims of the Hitler Fascist regime.
2. To arouse public opinion and action against the Hitler Fascist government and against the spread of Nazi propaganda and organization by Hitler agents and supporters in the United States.
3. To cooperate in the boycott movement against German goods.
4. To demand asylum for political refugees in the United States.
Already thirty city-wide organizations and groups have announced they will send delegates. Plans and arrangements have been in preparation since the recent visit to the United States of Lord Marley, speaker of the British House of Lords, and honorary chairman of the International Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism.
TORCHLIGHT PARADE
Commemorating the first anniversary of the mass burnings of books in Hitlerite Germany, anti-Nazis of New York on May 10 will hold a torchlight parade, beginning in Karl Schurz Park.
Organizations representing scores of thousands of members are affiliated in the militant commemorative action, which will protest through placards, floats, and speeches against “the destruction of culture and human rights which is an inseparable part of Fascism.”
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