Anti-fascists Greet Mosley with Catcalls

Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Black Shirts, has been having a bad time of it at his recent meetings.

Fascists and anti-Fascists came to blows in the main thoroughfare of ### at the conclusion of one of these rallies. Three thousand persons had ### the roadway facing the Athenaeum on Market street, and when Sir Oswald appeared accompanied by his bodyguard a conflicting roar of cheers and ### greeted him.

Inside the hall he was heckled throughout his speech, in which he referred to the operations of “Jewish financial interests in this country and abroad.” An uproar followed.

The Black Shirt leader was sub###ted to many interruptions, in which unemployed men and other anti-Fascists if the gallery took part. He warned repeatedly that anyone who persisted in such conduct would be ejected from the hall with a minimum of violence and turned over to the police, to be prosecuted under the Public Meeting Act.

“INDIVIDUAL JEWS” AGAIN

A. K. Chesterton, who writes “for the British Union of Fascists” from Mosley headquarters, says in a letter to The Yorkshire Observer:

“The suggestion of your correspondent ‘Fair Play’ that our attitude toward the Jewish people is identical with the attitude of the Nazis offends against the truth.

“The Nazi bases his objection to the Jews on racial grounds, while we are concerned solely with Jewish malpractices.

“Insofar as the individual Jew is innocent of these anti-social activities so persistently identified with his race, he will be entitled to just as much respect under a Fascist regime in Britain as any other decent citizen.”