Developments yesterday were:
Shochtim Union Local 440 voted 145 to 118 to disregard the issue (ban) and slaughter.
The Kashruth Association declared every shochet who slaughtered in violation of the ban was disqualified to slaughter further and all poultry killed by them is non-kosher.
The Kashruth Association reported twenty-three market men agreed to accept its plan, including supervision and tagging.
Bronx poultry markets did business as usual. Slaughtering continued in upper Manhattan markets, but not in lower Manhattan or Brooklyn. Observers reported the issur about sixty per cent effective.
The Kashruth Association appealed to the Jewish community to support the issur and to Jewish congregations to expel shochtim who defy it.
Rabbi Menashe Margolis, head of the Knesses Israel, issued an alternate Kashruth plan and said the organization would give special dispensation to shochtim to slaughter under this plan in defiance of the issur.
The first effective day of the rabbinical ban on unlabeled poultry yesterday found the Kashruth Association combatting organized opposition in the form of a defiant shochtim union and a dissident rabbinical organization.
Observers found the ban about sixty per cent effective, with Bronx markets carrying on business as usual. Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn markets were closed.
The issur, or ban, was proclaimed Monday after market men refused to accept a ruling of Judge Otto Rosalsky, the mayor’s poultry mediator, establishing rabbinical supervision of markets and tagging of fowl###.The wholesalers promptly threatened shochtim with abrogation of recently signed contracts if they did not continue working. The shochtim acceded to the mar-
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