Nazi intolerance was denounced by William Green, and other labor leaders at a benefit and mass meeting of 16,000 persons at Madison Square Garden last night that marked the launching of a nation-wide fund-raising campaign to aid victims of persecution in Europe.
Mr. Green declared that no one could enumerate the “crimes of Nazi Germany without expressing horror at the persecution of religion. Upon the crooked cross of Nazism the very teachings of Jesus Christ are being crucified in a campaign against civilization and religion, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or any other religion.”
Other speakers were Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor; Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Central Trades and Labor Council; Dr. Henry Smith Leiper and Rev. George Zantgraf. Prof. Albert Einstein sent a message urging international solidarity of labor against “nationalist hatred.”
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