The Archive · 1937

New York, Dee. 22

'Twenty-one uniformed members of the Abraham Lincoln Loyalist Volunteers' Brigade to-day picketed the Woolworth store in Times Square, shouting to customers to stop buying in protest against the sale of Japanese Choosing the 8 o'clock theatre rush hour for their action, the pickets car ied signs, one of which read: "One toy made'in Japan makes more bullets to Kill Chinese."

Police attempted to halt the. demonstration, but were resisted by' the pickets. "A crowd of 2,000 persons gathered, causing a traMe jam. They Jeered at the police and sympathized with the pickets, one of whom was on crutches.

Later, forty reserve policemen cleared' the area and arrested the pickets, charging them with disorder= Ly behavior—United Press.

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