New York’s anti-racketeering poultry code will be supervised by Leroy C. Peterson, formerly an economist with the Consumers’ Counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
Peterson’s appointment was announced today following the joint action of General Hugh Johnson administrator of the National Recovery Act, and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace.
An industrial advisory committee established under the code will assist Peterson in administrative work. Members of this committee elected by the industry are: E. V. Dwyer, Irving Sokoloff, Charles Sahn, P. J. Schwab and H. Julius Kastein, elected by the New York Poultry Merchants’ Association; A. Winkle and A. Klein, elected by Independent Slaughter House Operators; Benjamin Shapiro, Solomon Phillip and Mike Guerrien, elected by the Merchants’ Association of Live Poultry Industry: Charles Siegel Morris Gordon and George Skloot, elected by the Live Poultry Slaughter House Association.
The code covers the live poultry industry of metropolitan New York. Included in the conditions which it seeks to correct are racketeering among “schochtem” and the collection of fees for “protection.”
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