Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 53 | Urges Boycott on Hun Goods

URGES BOYGDTT 1 ON HUN GOODS Women Asked to Refuse Any Articles That Are Made in Germany. NEW YORK, Oct 26. An appeal to the women of America to rei'use to buy goods made in Germany, "whether so marked or not," and particularly to prevent pre-vent the sale in this country of a recent large importation of German-manufactured toys and china, was issued tonight "by Elizabeth Marbury. president of the Women's National Committee of the American Defense society. This action followed a vigorous protest by the New York City Federation of Women's c!ubs against sale of the German Ger-man toys. One member suggested a twentieth century "tea party" to heave the offending goods overboard from the ship which brought them across the Atlantic. At-lantic. Part of the German articles, which had been held at Rotterdam, owing to war conditions, were abandoned to customs officials today by tht. consignees, an importing im-porting firm which bought and pal 3 for them in the spring of 1914. Declaring that American mr-nufacturerj had taken the Germans place in the toy and china market, they declined to assist "German oropasTinda designed to reintroduce its products into America." Miss Marbury's -tatement declared that German militarism is but "th9 tool of German economic world domination." and the only way to retaliate for German savagery is for the women of America to refuse to have anything to do with the products of the German empire.