An open hearing was held Friday at the Hotel New Yorker on a code of fair competition for the live poultry industry in the northeastern states. The proposed code, aimed at wiping out unfair trade practices and racketeering, met with almost unanimous support from live poultry dealers and slaughterhouse men present.
A surprising point in the hearing arose when Herbert Frankel, representing the New York poultry commission merchants, announced that these former bitter opponents of the New York code now support it.
David S. Andron, representing the kosher butchers’ group, asked protection for retail poultry sellers from competition of wholesalers who also sell retail.
He urged that kosher poultry retailing be placed under the code for kosher meat retailers because this code regulates closing of places of business on Jewish holidays and provides for kosher supervision. Failing adoption of this recommendation, Mr. Andron demanded that poultry wholesalers be forbidden to sell retail poultry as kosher.
He said the matter can be settled by negotiation between code authorities.
The regional code, estimated to cover an annual live poultry business of 75,000,000 pounds, is sponsored by the New Jersey Poultry Dealers’ Association, the Retail Live Poultry Dealers’ Protective Association of Philadelphia and the Greater Boston Live Poultry Slaughterhousemen’s Association.
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