Jewish residents of Greater New York were faced with the possibility of a shortage of kosher meat today.
The executive board of the Hebrew Butcher Workers Union will decide at a meeting tonight whether 5,000 kosher butchers, members 5,000 kosher butchers, members of the union, will go out on strike in sympathy with the citywide walkout of butchers and helpers.
Although contracts with the union’s proprietors forbid it to strike, Joseph Belsky, its secretary, pointed out yesterday that meats cut by members are delivered by distribution employes of packing houses, many of who have joined the strike.
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