A “compromise program” which it is hoped will solve the problem of peddling on the beaches of Coney Island was presented to the executive members of the Progressive Regular Democratic Club last night at a joint meeting of merchants and peddlers at the club’s quarters, 6910 Bay parkway, Brooklyn.
The plan, presented by the organization’s program committee headed by George Schapiro follows :
1. Since peddlers continue to invade the beaches and risk arrest it might be better to regulate this traffic than try to suppress it.
2. Peddlers should be recruited from the ranks of the unemployed, relief and war veteran lists. Each peddler be given a license, badge and a card of identification (with photograph) by the license bureau or relief administrator.
3. Distributors of ice cream, soda pop, etc., be permitted to establish depots in Coney Island from where they would supply peddlers. The distributor to pay a license fee of $250 per year; the license to permit him to sell only to those presenting proper credentials.
4. Each peddler be required to wear an approved uniform.
5. No ballyhooing allowed on the beach.
6. A quota on the number of peddlers on each beach to be fixed by the license commissioner.
The matter will be considered by Nathaniel I. Helfgott and Teresa Scordino, executive members of the club, which is in the Sixteenth Assembly District, and the club’s president, Le Roy Moran. The district includes Coney Island.
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