A city-wide mass meeting of butchers to organize for a strike against Kashruth Association control of poultry markets will be held next Sunday, it was learned yesterday.
The strike decision came late Sunday night at a conference of executives of borough butcher organizations at headquarters of the Federation of Kosher Butchers, 147 West Forty-second street. At next Sunday’s meeting an official of the Federation said yesterday, a strike committee will be appointed and the date of the strike set.
The stoppage, in which chicken dealers are expected to join, marks the climax to poultry retailers’ opposition to the Kashruth Association system of attaching leg-bands to fowl to certify kosher slaughtering. Butchers complain that they cannot afford the one-cent per fowl tax which the leg-band system entails and that the innovation has resulted in inferior grades of fowl being forced upon them.
Bronx butchers yesterday were under orders from the Bronx Strictly Kosher Butchers Association not to remit to wholesalers the cost of the leg-bands which was being included in their bills for poultry.
Although the strike is expected to completely paralyze the poultry industry, an official of the New York Live Poultry Institute, yesterday expressed sympathy with the strike and said Bronx wholesalers would support it.
The avowed purpose of the butchers in striking is to force the Federal Government to investigate Kashruth Association control of kosher poultry slaughtering.
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