Demonstrations before Jewish butcher shops that do not sell kosher meat and pleas to the proprietors to mend their sinful ways as well as warnings to women buying in such stores that they bring sins on their own heads are the novel methods being used by local orthodox rabbis in combatting the sale of meat that is not kosher.
The efforts of the rabbis have thus far been entirely in vain because the butchers’ only reply is that they do not desire to be ruled by a “trust.” The rabbis’ demonstration yesterday, the second of the week, caused considerable excitement in Main Street, the heart of the Montreal Jewish section. Police intervention was needed to disperse the crowds.
The kosher butchers of Montreal are under the control of the Vaad Hair, Jewish Community Council, which has been in existence for the last nine years, and they sell meat at a fixed price. The butchers who sell meat that is not kosher sell at a lower price causing strife in the ranks of the butchers.
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