About 4,000 Kosher butchers in Greater New York stopped work in union and non-union shops as the first step in what Isidore Corn, manager of the Kosher Butchers’ Union, declared Sunday night would be a general strike, “unless the bosses would agree to renew union contracts that will expire tomorrow.”
Features of the contract include a provision of a minimum wage of $40 a week for butchers’ assistants, and a flat rate of $8 a day for part time helpers, except on Thursdays, when the rate will be $10. Eighty per cent of the Kosher stores, it was said, signed the contract last year.
“This strike will be in full force on Monday,” Mr. Corn said, “unless the issues are quickly settled. Our union has a fund of $55,000, with which to establish co-operative shops wherever the contracts are not signed.”
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