Hitlerite atrocities against Jews and the Nazi program of outlawing labor organizations today stood condemned in the judgment of Rhode Island as a result of action taken at the annual convention here of the Rhode Island branch, American Federation of Labor.
The delegates unanimously passed a resolution assailing the “persecutions committed against trade unions and the Jewish people in Germany” and pledging the organization to “all possible cooperation in the movement to boycott German-made products until such time as the Hitler Government restores to their rightful position those people who have been persecuted.”
The resolution was introduced under the auspices of the Rhode Island Textile Council after Rabbi Israel M. Goldman of Temple Emanu-El, outstanding Jewish leader and sponsor of the Case of Civilization Against Hitlerism here, had outlined the situation in Germany. Rabbi Goldman described the outrages against Jews and the future harm done by the Nazi policy, relating also the exile of organized labor in the Reich which he called another barbaric and backward step on the part of a supposedly intelligent and civilized people.
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