Civic Leaders to Voice Indignation At Treatment of Jews in Germany—Protest Meeting Is To Be Held Tuesday Night.

20 November 1938 | Cincinnati Enquirer

A city-wide protest meeting against Germany’s treatment of Jews will be held at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening at Emery Auditorium under auspices of Clergymen, educators, labor leaders, and city officials.

Councilman Russell Wilson will preside. Mayor James G. Stewart will head a list of speakers representing a wide range of community interests. Charles L. S. Easton, headmaster of the University School, will be Chairman.

Sponsors include Dr. Raymond Walters, President of the University of Cincinnati; Rev. Jesse Halsey, President of Cincinnati Council of the Federation of Churches; Jack Hurst, President of Central Labor Council; Jack Kroll, head of Cincinnati Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Phil E. Ziegler, Secretary of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Judson J. McKim, Executive Secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; Dr. William Keller, and Mrs. Lowell Hobart, Jr.

Easton said last night that the meeting has been arranged “to show Cincinnati Jews just where Gentiles stand” on the Nazi anti-Semitic program.

This protest, he declared, was not merely “an empty token of sympathy,” but a militant stand against what Nazism represents in the world today.

Christians must understand, he asserted, that their own interests were endangered, too, by the wave of intolerance and reversion to force seen now in Germany.