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handful, made by one Of the strike SYM

handful, made by one OF the strike SYM
pathizers, Is:
We say tina Mr.. Bishop has chucked his
schochets. The men are now idle and we
ask the people to stay with the killers. Don't
buy your chickens there because they won't
be kosher.
These handbills stirred up things slightly
in the chicken belt along the East River,
because the name of Rabbi Nidrowitz
Of 232 Henry street was printed on them.
Rabbi Widrowitz is the official provider 81
schochets for most Of the markets m the
neighborhood, and anything he backed
was regarded by the jewish poultrymen
mund Moses. a big wholesaler, who changed
his mind about taking the I cent commits
sion from his ex~ecutioners, said right away
that he believed Bishop would lose a lot OF
trade from tho retail butchers because his
market had lost it's union label. He said that
people wouldn't have confidence In Bishops
fowls and would be afraid they weren't
getting the real thing in the kosher line.
Mr.. Bishop, the poultry octopus. wasn't
around his market on East Houston street
yesterday after the boycott had been
started, but his manager, Joe Begg, wasn't
Worrying any. I'VE went to another rabbi
and got all the killers we wanted" he said.
They're the real thing. too, and their
whiskers are the regulation length, even II
they don't belong to the union, We're pay
ing 3l4 a week, which is liberal enough for
the few hours work they do one day in the
week"
mVioe-President Klein Of the Cheyri Scho-
chetim Hofos aid that the union can't
lose its fight because the Talmud and all
the books Of Moses are with the strikers.
"Our religion says that no man shall take
from another his work and give II to some
one else. declared Klein gravely. Bishop
might be able TO hire schochets who had
been killing cattle, but the only chicken
aohOChetR are with ms
Klein said that there wouldn't be any
more walkouts until the union had a n
to see how Bishops strikebreakers turned
out. He has his eye on a couple OF markets
that won't come to terms with the union
and Is liable TO declare a boycott on these
places next week, IL the retail butchers
keep on buying Bishops n~on-union koshered
poultry, however. it Is likely that other
dealers will fall in line with him and declare
for an open shop. Then with nearly a hum
dred union killers on the waTpath, the
threatened poultry famine may materialize,
Folks who don't care for chicken will be
surprised TO know that the Jews Of Man
haitian get away with fifty carloads, OF
$4,000 chickens. every week, The re-
ligion requires that fowl BIZ eaten on the
Sabbath day ard oftener in the holidays.
Each fowl mus he killed by a schOchet,
who has to pasu a rigid examination NJ to
his knowledge OF the Talmud and the laws
Of killing prescribed by the religion before
the rabbi gives him a diploma.
When killing a fowl the schochet bends
back its head, slashes It across the wind
pipe and says a Hebrew prayer, the Eng
lish Of which IL: God blesses this fowl
because he made it," Then he allows a
littlo Of tho fowls blood 10 drip on the
floor and says another prayer over tho blood
after he has covered 10 with saw dust. The
chicken or capon or whatever it NAV be
is then ready for orthodox consumption.