The first of a series of mass meetings in fourteen countries to push the economic boycott against Hitler’s sword-brandishing Germany will be staged in Paris tomorrow, it was announced yesterday by the World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council, which has arranged the gatherings in conjunction with dominant labor organizations in the various lands and international unions.
A London meeting, which will also be held this week, will be addressed by Sir Robert Mond and Walter Citrine, president of the British Central Trades and Labor Council.
The New York Hippodrome is expected to be crowded to capacity Wednesday evening for the local meeting, under the joint auspices of the American Federation of Labor and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League. Samuel Untermyer, world boycott chieftain, and high officials of the A. F. of L. will speak.
Similar rallies are scheduled for Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, New Orleans, Montreal, San Francisco, Brussels, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Cairo and Johannesberg, with plans for meetings in Rumania, Palestine, Czechoslovakia, Latvia and other countries going forward encouragingly.
The purpose of the assemblies is to bring pressure on the League of Nations at its forthcoming session for adoption of an official international boycott, as sanctioned by the League covenant, to curb German militarism and treaty-breaking.
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