The modern weapon, the strike, was threatened by Jewish women in defense of the dietary observances, endangered by the action of the Central Cooperative administration in Kremenchug.
The cooperative discontinued the sale of kosher meat to its members. The Jewish women declared they would call a strike and abstain from cooking dinners for their husbands, all members of the union and the cooperative, unless kosher meat was provided. Over one hundred housewives signed the ultimatum delivered to the cooperative authorities.
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