Three important Jewish Economic Organizations, the Merchants’ Union, the Artisans’ Organization, and the Retailers’ Organization have asked their members to commence an unconditional boycott of German wares. They have also instructed them to close their businesses today on the occasion of the nationwide protest against the German excesses.
The Central Committee of the Agudath Israel, associating themselves with the protest demonstrations, calls upon the Jews of Poland to engage in repentence and prayer. The proclamation declares, “We have none upon whom to lean, except on our Father who is in Heaven.”
The “Haint” commenting on the letter addressed by the German Jewish Veterans to the United States Ambassador in Berlin, denying the atrocities, declares that the letter was no doub-written under compulsion, and was comparable to the letter sent by the Rabbis in Soviet Russia who denied ill-treatment at the very moment they were suffering imprisonment and hardship.
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