Judge Otto A. Rosalsky indicated at a conference at City Hall yesterday that if the poultry market owners do not accept his decision establishing rabbinical supervision of markets and better conditions for shochtim by October 5, it will go into effect on October 8 despite their opposition.
He was fortified with the declaration the previous night by the Kashruth Association at a conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania that the New York rabbinate will place a ban on all poultry if the market men do not accept the decision.
Judge Rosalsky, the Mayor’s mediator in recent poultry market difficulties, has handed down a decision providing for rabbinical supervision of poultry markets, payment of shochtim at the rate of one-half cent per pound, a maximum of 12,000 pounds per week to be slaughtered by shochtim and attachment of tags to chickens to certify they have been killed according to the Jewish ritual.
ANOTHER PARLEY SET
Another conference will be held October 5 to hear the market men’s decision. If the marketmen announce acceptance of his settlement, Judge Rosalsky said, the effective date will be extended to October 22. In the meantime a publicity campaign will be undertaken to acquaint the Jewish consuming public with the terms of the settlement and its implications.
Judge Rosalsky presided jointly with Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch at yesterday’s meeting. Others present were Arthur Simon, executive director of the Kashruth Association, Leroy Peterson, NRA poultry code supervisor; Louis Lande, chief examiner for the Board of Alderman, and Dr. Max Danziger.
Mr. Deutsch denounced the present practice of kashruth in poultry markets as merely giving the appearance of supervision and kashruth.
The market men, backed by Mr. Peterson, have indicated they will not support the settlement, basing their opposition on the increased costs entailed in rabbinical supervision and payment of the shochtim according to the settlement.
DEALERS AGAINST TAGS
Spokesmen for the market owners declared that at a meeting, wholesalers had voted unanimously against affixing tags to chickens as involving “waste” of time.
Mr. Simon urged the market men to give Judge Rosalsky’s settlement a trial, indicating that if it does not work out satisfactorily, it will be modified. Mr. Simon is director of the Kashruth Association, which will control rabbinical supervision.
Following the conference on October 5, Judge Rosalsky will report formally on the situation to Mayor LaGuardia.
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