Untermyer Heads Fight

The first international anti-Nazi boycott conference closed here today after unanimously electing Samuel Untermyer, American boycott leader, president of the World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Boycott Council.

Three thousand persons met at Central Hall at Westminster in the closing session of the conference tonight and solemnly pledged “hearty support of the German boycott until the German government restores full rights and complete freedom of belief of all citizens.”

The resolution to this effect was adopted by acclamation.

A world Jewish boycott organization was created here today by the Jewish section of the international conference, which met separately. A central Jewish committee was chosen to carry on the boycott work and to organize propaganda against Hitlerism among the Jewish people. The committee will work in close cooperation with the international non-sectarian group.

International boycott headquarters will be opened in London in the near future, it was announced today.

The entire day was spent in deciding upon the composition of the governing body of the international organization and in choosing officers of the working executive body.

Mr. Untermyer, it was announced, leaves for New York tomorrow on the Berengaria.

The conference which just closed in London was decisive in creating an international boycott movement with a central direction instead of the loose organization hitherto existing.

For the first time the aims of the boycott were clearly stated and the terms upon which the movement would end were defined.

Adherence of the British labor movement and the International Federation of Trade Unions is regarded as an important victory for the boycott forces.

The conference also showed that the anti-Nazi boycott was by no means a Jewish affair.