“We object to a contract,” declared J. Sidney Bernstein, counsel to the wholesalers, “forced on us when we couldn’t resist by racketeers. This contract was not carried out by any one.”
“They were not forced,” returned Gribetz, “and it is ridiculous to say they were.”
The provisions of the contract corresponded substantially to the demands of the union officials, namely, that shochtim receive a $65 weekly salary and that they be not obliged to kill more than fifty coops of fowl per week.
Earlier in the day, a group of rabbis and shochtim conferred in the office of Arthur Simon, Health Department investigator in charge of kashruth, and elected a committee to convey to Rosalsky a resolution demanding rabbinical supervision of poultry markets. The committee consisted of Rabbis Abraham Isaac Feivelson, Isaiah Kalinsky and Nachman Eben.
Representatives of the shochtim, wholesalers and retailers will meet in closed conference today in Bernstein’s office to find what points of agreement there are among them, thereby to facilitate arbitration by Rosalsky. The hearings will resume tomorrow at 2:30 p. m.
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