THE testimonial dinner to William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, given by the Non-Sectarian AntiNazi League to Champion Human Rights, was a richly deserved tribute to the leader of American labor. The addresses of former Ambassador Gerard, Mayor LaGuardia and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver on how to combat Hitlerism were inspiring. The exhaustive statement of Samuel Untermyer, president of the League, and on of America’s foremost jurists, was an annihilating indictment of Hitlerism and a masterful plea for a boycott against Germany as the only measure of self-defense against Nazi horrors in Germany and outrageous Nazi propaganda in this country.
William Green spoke for Amercan labor with the courage and dignity befitting a spokesman of the American working masses. He declared that the anti-German boycott adopted unanimousty by the representatives of the American Federation of Labor must be pushed vigorously as long as hitler’s Germany continued to oppress the organized German workers and the Jewish people. He pointed out that the majority of the German Jews suffered doubly, as Jews and as members of trades unions.
If the German masses are prevented from learning of the attitude of American labor toward the Nazi regime, because the German press is completly muzzled, the working people in the civilized lands of the world will be heartened by the noble andfearless humanitarian stand taken by american labor.
“”LIVING SPACE
A NEW organization calling itselff the Reich Representation of German Jews has been formed in Germany. It is composed of a number of eminent Jewish leaders. At the first meeting a resolution was adopted calling on German Jews to bury internal dissensions and unite, and urging “all the forces of Jewry to serve one aim –to secure for every Jew in the fatherland not only living space but also liberty to profess and practice his Jewish conviction openly nad unre strictedly”
This is a most eloquent and most painful illustration of what German Jews are experiencing and what Jewish hopes and ex- Unclear Text
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