Mayor LaGuardia yesterday reiterated his determination that kosher butcher shops must remain closed on Sunday, Arthur Simon, Health Department Kashruth investigator, told the Jewish Daily Bulletin after a conference with the Mayor.
David S. Andron, counsel to the Federation of Kosher Butchers, had been seeking permission for Sunday opening. He said that the Mayor’s secretary has not as yet granted him an appointment to explain why kosher butchers should be permitted to do business on Sunday.
The Federation, Andron said, will seek to introduce legislation permitting kosher butchers, who observe Saturday sabbath, to do business on Sunday.
The intent of the present Sabbath law, he stated, is that persons observing a sabbath other than Sunday should be allowed to do business on Sunday.
One-third to one-fourth of a kosher butcher’s weekly business is done on Sunday, Andron announced after a survey among New York butchers.
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