Injunction proceedings will be instituted this morning to prevent striking kosher poultry dealers from picketing butcher shops, it was disclosed yesterday by Leroy Peterson, regional director of the poultry code authority.
Meanwhile, dealers selling poultry exclusively yesterday continued to picket butcher shops selling poultry and boycotted wholesalers in an attempt to force rescinding of an Agricultural Adjustment Administration ruling which went into effect last Monday providing for “straight killing.”
“Straight killing” refers to the practice of buying poultry from wholesalers in unopened coops as opposed to the former practice of dealers opening the coops and selecting the fowl.
CHARGE DISCRIMINATION
The former practice, it was claimed, discriminated against the butchers since they made their choice of poultry after the dealers and consequently were forced to accept fowl of an inferior quality.
Wholesalers yesterday expressed their determination to keep the ruling in effect and predicted the strike would be broken by this morning because, they said, poultry sales by butchers compensated for the dealers’ stoppage.
Mr. Peterson said that papers he was preparing to bring into court charged that dealers intimidated butchers and carried signs libeling the character of poultry sold.
Meeting at the Great Central Palace, 96 Clinton street, yester-
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