The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-14
NEW KOSHER SHOP
DOES BIC BUSINESS
Crowds of Ghetto Folk Surround
Place and Clamor for Meat at
Reduced Prices.

Hundreds of Ghetto folk swarmed
about the cooperative" kosher meat
market of Abraham Bordeloff, at No,
l52 Division-st., from daybreak, FRI
day, until nearly noon, when the last
scrap Of meat, at 10, IL and IA cents
per pound, was sold out. II was a
peaceable, but decidedly disorderl5
crowd. The women, chafing under the
restraint OF four policemen, who struS
gled In vain to make them form an
orderly line, and await their turn to
enter the shop in groups OF five. insist
ed on forcing their way to the shop
door, regardless of priority. The shop,
in the center of the block, was the
vortex of regular mob. during the
early hours. The women, protesting
every step, were finally forced by the
police to form In two lines. approach
ing the shop in both directions. Five
were admitted at a time, and until
they were all out, no one else was al
lowed to enter One OF the windows,
beside the doorway, was broken In
the struggle OF the women. Mean
while, scores OF men stood compla-
Gently by, figuratively patting one an
other on the backs over the victory
over the butchers.
Bordeloff estimated that more than
2 200 pounds of meat was sold during
the morning. He said that he couldn't
, tell until Saturday, whether his ven.
ture had been success, or whether
he had lost money
At the cost of great effort, and tire
less scouting" Bordeloff obtained
eight cows and IL calves, for the first
| days business of the strike-breaking
butcher shop. He would not tell
where he got the cattle. Bordelofi
and the members of the strikers
committee, headed by Mrs. Harry
| Posner. all insist that the regular
kosher butchers made desperate. and
| almost successful attempts to put the
| new shop out of business before 1t
started, by getting the wholesalers
| refusal to sell Bordeloff any cattle.
Bordeloff says that he is now at his
| wits end to know where to get more
cattle, but he insists that the shop
will open Saturday night, at the close
of the Jewish Sabbath, and that he
will have meat to sell
Meanwhile, the regular kosher
butchers along Hastings-st, are doing
no business. Joe Ratkovsky,s shop,
at No. 462 Hastings-st., was open, and
Rstkoxslsy was there but he-seld- no
meat. Several persons entered the
place while Times reporter was
talking to Ratkovsky. Some, he said.
we're his good customers. They asked
for meat. Ratkovsky shook his head.
Then, after they had left, he opened
his ice box, and displayed seven fronts
IF cattle, butchered Thursday.
Tomorrow night, all OF the butchers
will open their shops for business as
usual" said Ratkovsky. To-day, we
all stay closed, as far as selling meat
Is concerned We want everybody,
poor customers and good customers.
to buy their meat at the strikers shop
today. We want them to see what
kind OF meat they are getting for 10,
IL and IA cents a pound II is the
meat OF old mich cows, the kind that
is usually used only for sausage. Those
cows cost as low as five cents pound
on the hoof. Dressed and slaughtered.
they can be bought from seven to nina
cents a pound. II is not good meat.
We couldn't sell 1t at any price, ex-
cept In sausage But the strikers