The orthodox Jewish rabbinate yesterday moved to place a ban on all poultry slaughtered in New York City.
Meeting in executive session, the Kashruth Association of Greater New York resolved to prohibit consumption of poultry by Jews if the poultry market owners do not accept the decision of Judge Otto A. Rosalsky establishing rabbinical supervision.
Judge Rosalsky, the Mayor’s mediator in recent poultry market difficulties, has given the market owners until two o’clock this afternoon to accept the settlement. At that time a meeting will be held at City Hall to hear the market owners’ decision.
REJECTION DECIDED
Both retail and wholesale slaughterers have decided to reject the decision, it was learned authoritatively, and defy Judge Rosalsky who has declared he will force the market owners to accept it if they do not do so of their own accord.
The market men claim that the one-cent per pound tax on poultry which Judge Rosalsky’s settlement will entail will ruin the poultry industry.
SHOCHTIM BACK RABBIS
The poultry slaughterers are expected to back the rabbis in the poultry ban. At a conference last
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