The deadlock between wholesalers and slaughterers in the poultry industry continued yesterday, with counsel for each faction re-emphasizing their respective demands and neither side willing to concede any, at the second conference called by Judge Otto Rosalsky, the Mayor’s mediator, in the judge’s chambers in the Criminal Courts Building.
“The Jew,” said Judge Rosalsky at the opening of the conference, “is willing to pay more for kosher-slaughtered poultry if he knows that it is kosher. I was dumbfounded to hear that many wholesalers have no supervision.”
Samuel Weiner, one of the leaders of the wholesalers’ delegation, contradicted Judge Rosalsky. “If you think the Jewish public is willing to pay the excess,” he said, “then you don’t know the Jewish public.”
Louis J. Gribetz, counsel to the shochtim, presented their demands in the form of an agreement which has been nominally in force until recently, although, as both sides agreed, the agreement had not been carried through in many respects.
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