An investigation into the alleged existence of a poultry trust which, in its efforts to boost the prices of kosher fowl before the approaching Jewish holidays, has resorted to acts of violence and intimidation, is being conducted on an order of Attorney General Albert Ottinger.
Joseph Rosalsky, brother of the General Sessions Judge, is sitting as referee at the hearing, which will continue until Assistant Attorney General William D. Groat, jr., conducting the investigation, has exhausted the sources of inquiry. The evidence will be presented to the various District Attorneys. The hearing is being held in the Attorney General’s Office at No. 51 Chambers Street.
The witnesses heard told how they had been ordered to buy at certain slaughterhouses; roughly treated and ominously threatened if they failed to obey. Prices they had to pay at the selected slaughterhouses, they said, had risen 10 and 15 cents above the quoted price during the last month.
Mr. Ottinger said he was working out a scheme to bring about fair prices during the Jewish holidays, for he fears the ## will extend beyond then.
Police Commissioner Warren, Mr. Ottinger said, had assigned squads of plain clothes men to the sections where trouble is expected.
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