ket men’s demands at a meeting Monday night by voting to continue working.
A spokesman for the union yesterday said shochtim will go to work in all sections of the city this morning. Informed that a rabbinical court had disqualified these shochtim, the spokesman said, “Where will they get others?”
“A rabbinical court considered today the action of the shochtim in voting to violate the issur,” a Kashruth Association official stated yesterday at its office 1123 Broadway.
“The court declares that no kosher and qualified shochet slaughterers poultry contrary to the ban. Such shochet who does violate the issur is no longer qualified and poultry so slaughtered is tref (non-kosher) and unfit for consumption. “
SUPPORT ISSUR
A committee headed by Meyer Wurzel representing the East Side Congregation’s society known as “The Ninety-niners,” a rigidly orthodox group, called at the Association’s office to announce that it had decided to strike off its membership rolls all shochtim who violate the issur.
A number of Jewish organizations forwarded resolutions to the Kashruth Association declaring they were supporting the issur.
Among them was the Council of Young Israel, city wide Jewish youth organization, which resolved “that the Council of Young Israel support the issur of the united rabbinate prohibiting the use of fowl unless it is slaughtered and identified in accordance with the regulations imposed by the rabbinate. And be it further resolved that every Young Israel organization and every Young Israel member owes a duty to obey the order of the rabbinate and assist its enforcement in every way. “
The rabbinical court issued an appeal to all orthodox congregations, societies and organizations to expel shochtim who slaughter in violation of the issur. Many shochtim are also mohalim, and the court asked orthodox Jews not to avail themselves of the mehel’s services if as a shochet, he violates the issur.
Representatives of twenty-three markets, most of them small, called at the office of the Kashruth Association and signed agreements accepting supervision by Association rabbis, including the tagging of each fowl to certify that it has been killed according to ritual. The ban was lifted from these markets.
OFFER ALTERNATE PLAN
Rabbi Menashe Margolies, head of the Knesses Israel, a rabbinical organization which has consistently opposed the majority supervision plan of the rabbinate, yesterday made public an alternate plan. He said his organization would give a special dispensation to shochtim to slaughter in markets accepting this plan. It provides:
1. Strict supervision by a rabbinical organization (there are four), but not by individual rabbis.
2. Payment for supervision by the market man to the organization.
3. Attachment of tags bearing the seal of the organization and the signature of the supervising rabbi to each sack of poultry.
Officials of the Kashruth Association made light of the Knesses, declaring it represents only a few rabbis.
An increase in the consumption of fresh water fish was reported yesterday by the Department of Public Markets. This increase is a direct result of the rabbinical ban on kosher poultry, it was said. Herring is listed as the best bargain in the fresh water market.
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