A report from the resolutions committee of the American Federation of Labor, which will include recommendations to the convention on the Federation’s position on a boycott against German goods, is expected to be made Wednesday morning, it was indicated by officials today. Matthew Woll, third vice-president of the Federation, is chairman of the committee.
In view of a recommendation for a boycott made at the opening session of the convention by the Federation’s Executive committee headed by William Green, president, it is freely predicted that the report from the resolutions committee will recommend a boycott in retaliation for Hitler’s destruction of the labor union movement in Germany, and his treatment of the Jews in that country, under the Nazi regime.
Hope for the adoption of a boycott was given added force by an address delivered before the convention by James Rowan, delegate of the British Trade Union Congress, who presented a vivid picture of the treatment of the Jews under the Hitler regime, and made a plea to American labor that some expression of resentment be made.
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