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Liverpool Jews Enter Third Meatless Week As Slaughterers Refuse to End Protest Strike

August 17, 1947
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With the fourth largest Jewish population in Britain, the Jewish community of Liverpool faced its third week without kosher seat as cattle slaughterers continued to refuse to handle meat for the Jews as a protest against the hanging of the two British sergeants in Palestine.

A similar strike at Bradford ended this week. Smaller Jewish communities, such as Leicester with only 170 families, are getting along without meat. The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Trades Union Council have been in touch with Government officials and union leaders on the matter, but to date the Liverpool strikers have refused to alter their decision.

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