Plans were nearing completion today for a joint mass meeting of the Rhode Island Council of the American Jewish Congress and the Rhode Island Branch of the American Federation of Labor within the next two weeks to intensify the anti-Nazi boycott.
The A.F. of L. has assigned one of the vice-presidents as a speaker and the Congress will present a prominent Jewish leader.
Dr. Ilie Berger, a national officer of the Zionist Organization of America and the American Jewish Congress, is president of the Rhode Island Council.
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