New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-01

the so-called poultry trust in pre-
senting each eide OF the controversy
Rabbits Papers Bare Feud.
Assistant District Attorney Deuel.
conferred with Rabbi Magnes yester-
day. Assistant District Attorney Dele
hanty said kfterwsrd that Nr. Deuel.
was not ready TO make report as TO
the value Of the pspers. Il is under
stood, however. that, aside from giving
sone insight into the be.ligerent con-
ditions which existed among the poul-
try dealers for months prior 20 Bars
death. the statements probably viii not
furnish any valuable new evidence.
They might have proved Of consider
able value in facilitating the Garner
investigation Of the case.
Most Of the afidavits we're made by
Bats rivals In the live poultry busi.
ness. charging his firm with highhanded
methods in lis business transactions.
They allege that BAIT forced the retail
poultrv dealers in Parlem and The
Bronx 10 form an association and agree
10 rent two places Of business from
Baff. paving $4,000 for one and $3.50
week for the other. They further al
iege that Baf forced them 20 agree to
buv at least six carloads Of poultry
week at y cent a pound above the
quoted New York market price. The
afidavits state that the Bsff iirn. forced
the agreement at a meeting OF the har-
lem Poultry Dealers Protective S'so-
eiation. at the New Star Casino, 10th
ST. and Lexington az, on April Ia. 1913.
A typical affidavit states that the
methods pursued by 5. Bait have re-
suited in putting number OF retalI
poultry dealers out Of existence and IN
bringing 70 the verge Of ruination the
business OF large number OF others
A. n result, according TO some OF the
afidavits, the retail dealers went ION
strike" refusing 10 purchase any more
poultry from any one, with the hope OF
srousing public opinion against the
"highhanded wholesalers" particularly
in the Jewish neighborhoods OF the
city. The strike wss called of within
two weeks.
Some of the afiidayits intimated
strongly that such conditions as the
Baff firm were creating should not be
allowed 10 continue. Several of the
statements charge that Baf arbitrarily
fixed the price of poultry and COM
PEELED dealers TO buy more poultry
than they really needed.
An affidavit Of the Baff firm sum-
married conditions in the poultry trade
at the time, and averred that the retail
dealers-"the triokiest bunch we have
ever come in contact with'-were using
every effort TO put the Bats out of
business. They determined to night
"the strikers" 10 the finish. The aff-
davit further states:
"You will notice that every one was
willing 20 give in as soon as they COM
menced TO strike, but we we're ihe only
ones TO hold out The writer has a
pretty good souvenir of the strike, for.
while ne was talking business in one
of the restaurants in the market, he
was hit over the head with a blunt
instrument and his scalp was opened.
We fodght for the shippers as well as
we did for ourselves. and, even with
their strong arm, their bulldozing did
not go very far. They got the truck
ing company TO hamper US, but we
built five futo trucks { our own, which
did the business. Then they started in
with the unloaders (the so-called
chicken pullers' who unload the cars b,
but they did not go far, as we got our
own unloading gang together"
The three Cohen brothers, who were
leaders among the Chicken pullers,
are all under detention in the Bad
murder case. Assistant District Attor-
new Delehanty said Yesterday he would
oppose any application for -he lover
ing of bail for the Cohens, which is
fixed at $4,000, or any attempt t get
any of the witnesses out of the House
of Detention, pending the resumption
of the grand jury deliberations.