Evening star., 1935-08-22
GERMAN BOYCOTT
URGED BY 1000
Members of Congress Are
Cheered-Utahan Visions
Official Protest.

Cheering enthusiastically at scath-
ing denunciations of Hitler, more than
1000 Jews, Catholics and Protes-
tants gathered at the Masonic audi
torium last night and approved reso-
lutions demanding a boycott of Ger
many. A half dozen members of Con-
gress addressed the meeting, pledging
support for a crusade Ito bring the
tyrant of Germany before the bar of
American justice" by economic and
diplomatic pressure.
IF the Hitler regime continues its
paganistic course" said Senator King
of Utah, "the United States cannot
officially remain silent. A public pro-
test will be expected from the White
House and the Secretary of State, and
there's plenty of precedent for it.
In dealing with Hitler soft words
will fail" he added, declaring himself
in favor of terminating commercial
treaties with Germany if religious
persecution there continues.
Describing Naz activities as bar
barism," Genator Tydings of Mary
land exhorted the mass meeting to
form a united front to check the
spread of the Hitler inf1uenc
ease of which Hitler is victim" he
asserted, you'll wake up with the
disease in ycur own country"
Fenerty Recites Poem.
Representative Fenerty of Pennsyl-
vania was applauded after his attack
on Nazi-ism, which he concluded with
the recitation of poem written by
himself.
A charge that Hitler agents have
spent $4,000, 900 to stir up inter-
racial and inter -denominational hatred
in the United States was made by Rep
resentative Dickstein of New York.
He exhorted his listeners to pull to-
gether and put Germany in its place"
Representative Celler of New York,
who presided at the meeting, urged
the assemblage to avoid ''pussyfooting"
programs and adopt a good and eff
cacious series of economic reprisals"
which would culminate in a boycott.
Religious and civic leaders praised
resolutions asking American with
drawal from the 1886 Olympic games
in Berlin, care for Jewish refugees
from Germany, avoidance of trade
agreements with Germany, and termi-
nation of exchanges of professors and
students between American and Ger
man universities. The resolutions were
passed unanimously.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, de-
clared thes effectiveness of the boy
colt in combating. the Nazi regime
already has been proved. He exhorted
the crowd to use its full influence in
applying economic pressure to Ger
many.
Msgr James A. Ryan of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference
protested not only against religious
persecution i'm Germany, but also
against 'the gradual destruction Of
civil liberties in America
Other speakers included Representa-
tive Citron of Connecticut, who
pleaded with the Jews to keep faith
in their heritage; DR.. Harry Spigel,
president of the Washington Council
of the American Jewish Congress, who
reviewed the purpose of the demon
stration and described religious perse-
cution in Germany, and Morris Freil-
hoff, local lawyer. Rabbi J. T. Loeb
of the Southeast Jewish Congregation
pronounced the invocation.
U. S. Organization Hit.
Following the meeting, Representa-
tive Dickstein said efforts are being
made to deport 5000 members of the
Friends of New Germany organization
who have taken the Hitler oath.
The Friends of New Germany, he
declared, are hand-in-glove with Na1
officials trying to promote religious
antagonism and subversive propa-
ganda in the United States. Ninety
per cent of them are aliens, he added,
and would be deported under terms
of bill recently reported by the Com
mittee on Immigration and Natural,
ization.
He described the organization, which
came into prominence last year when
it raised money for the Hauptman de-
fense, as "a propaganda agency
modelled after the National Socialist
Party of Germany"
Dickstein is chairman of the I'm
migration and Naturalization Com
mittee and vice chairman Of the Com
mittee on Un-American Activities.
The latter group, he said, is making
an investigation of Nazi propaganda
in this country.