Boycott Hurts U.S. Silk Men, Say Japanese

Japanese students today declared the contemplated boycott of silk stockings on the University of Washington campus by members of the American Students' Union will serve only to injure merchants of this nation.

Men members of the A.S.U. declared they would not escort University women to social functions unless the women wore stockings made of other than silk materials. Women members until Japan withdraws troops from China.

"American merchants in possession of silk stockings will be the ones to feel the effects of such a boycott," Shoji Okamura, senior political science student, declared.

Acting as spokesman for Japanese students on the campus, Okamura said those who would be most affected in the Orient by a boycott on silk articles would be persons "who have no hand in what the government is doing."