Organization of a national campaign to impose a “moral embargo” against supplying American materials to Nazi Germany was urged today at a meeting opening Anti-Nazi Week. A resolution to this effect, and also calling for intensification of the anti-Nazi boycott, was unanimously adopted.
The meeting, held at the Manhattan Center with an attendance of several hundred persons, was sponsored by the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee; the Volunteer Christian Committee to Boycott Nazi Germany, of which Dr. William J. Schiefflin is chairman, and the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations, headed by Dr. Mary E. Wooley.
Speakers included Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Congress; Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the Joint Boycott Council; Dr. Schiefflin; Maxwell Stewart, representing Dr. Wooley’s group; Ludwig Lore, New York Post columnist; Louis Waldman of the Jewish Labor Committee; Dr. Sylvester Gruzska, Polish Consul General, and Andrew J. Valusek, vice president of the Czech National Council in America.
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