Prompt and stern measures were adopted this week by Attorney General Hamilton Ward, Jr., and his assistant, William B. Groat, Jr., to thwart the attempted revival of racketeering in the milk trade, which recently resulted in the indictment of Larry Fay and 140 milk dealers in Greater New York. Following a conference between the officials and a committee of the Jewish Grocers’ Association of New York, headed by Samuel N. Horowitz, Assistant Attorney General Groat assigned a corps of investigators to follow reports of the attempted revival to their sources.
The conference today followed two weeks’ investigation of the new racket by officials of the Jewish Grocers’ Association, whose members reported that so-called “adjusters” were again calling on the trade. “Thousands of grocers in the city are uneasy under the veiled threats of these ‘adjusters’,”’ said Mr. Groat. “We do not at this time know how far their operations have progressed. But before the condition develops to menacing proportions, we will stamp it out—thoroughly and completely.”
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