A hearing yesterday afternoon on a bill proposed by the Federation of Kosher Butchers making it a penal offense to put kosher labels on non-kosher meat, was adjourned for one week when the hearing was turned into a near riot. The hearing was held in the Newark City Hall before the City Commission. Mayor Mayer C. Ellenstein presided.
Henry Green, prominent Jewish Socialist of this city, was ejected from the hearing on the orders of Mayor Ellenstein, when he repeatedly interrupted speakers at the hearing. Green declared that the ordinance was “sought by racketeers” and even while he was being ejected from the room by a policeman yelled that “if the matter were given a full hearing, sensational disclosures would follow.”
Meyer Zemel, one of the largest realty holders in Newark, warned the commission that it “was playing with dynamite if it enacted such an ordinance.”
He asked to keep “religion out of the City Hall,” and declared that it would mean “political death for any one sponsoring such an ordinance.”
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