The Archive · 1937

Madison Square Mass Meeting

New York, Oct. 2

Fifteen thousand people attended a mass meeting to-day in Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the American League Against War And Fascism and American Friends of the Chinese. Demands were made for an official and unofficial boycott of Japanese. products throughout America, The speakers included Miss Luise Rainer, the star of the film, "The Good Earth," who recalled her stay in China during the making of the flm. She said: "As an artist and an individual I protest against what is happening there."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account