Pickets bearing signs protesting the sale of German-made merchandise paraded before Charles I. Silberman’s Hardware Store Co. , Inc. , 27 Ludlow street, and the Terminal Hosiery Co. establishment at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street yesterday afternoon.
“A roughneck, who said he was a member of the Anti-Nazi Minute Men, came into my store a few days ago,” Silberman said, “and accused me of having received a $1,000 shipment of hardware from Germany.
“I told him I buy all my goods from jobbers here, and any purchases I’ve made in the last two years have carried Japan or Sweden labels.
“I admitted I have about $100 worth of old German stock on my shelves, but I can’t afford to throw it out.
“The roughneck called me a liar. I ordered him out of my store. The picketing has been orderly and business has never been better. “
David Levy, president of the Terminal Hosiery Co. , admitted his firm is selling Nazi-manufactured women’s gloves.
“I’m not in a position right now to discontinue my German stock,” he said. He would not explain further.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
