The snarled city mayoralty campaign was brought before the convention of the Kashruth Association of Greater New York Sunday when 500 leaders of orthodox Jewry were brought face-to-face with the issue of racial prejudice, an issue that is almost certain to carry enormous weight among thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish voters alike.
F. H. LaGuardia, Fusion candidate, who recently charged Joseph V. McKee, Recovery candidate for Mayor, with anti-Semitism on the strength of an article Mr. McKee wrote in The Catholic World eighteen years ago, and provoked violent debate which has not yet subsided, belittled persons who make it a point to claim special friendship for racial groups.
Mayor O’Brien earned the gratitude of the convention when he read at the close of his address, his letter to the United German Societies honorary president, Dr. William Popcke, forbidding the scheduled German Day celebration meeting of the organization at the 165th Armory Sunday night.
Mr. McKee in his address declared that “this is too great a city, too big a place, for prejudices to be allowed to exist for a single moment.”
A new system of supervising the sale and marketing of kosher meat was inaugurated at the evening session of the convention. In substance it will provide for the assignment of supervisors to the various manufacturers and producers by the Kashruth Association, “who will guard the interests of the kosher consuming public.” The cost of maintaining the supervisors will be met by a tax of one-half cent per pound on kosher meat and two cents per chicken.
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