New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08
RENTS FIGHT TO COURTS.
MORE MASS MEETINGS.
Hundreds Of Election Cases To BE
Fought By Tenants.

Believing that the sympathy OF the courts is
with them. hut realizing that the landlords have
the law On their side The East Side tenement
house jewellers who are resisting the rent rails
ing e,,tor+iors o. the .cockroaCh" landlords and
lossees have decided TO conduct the legal side 81
their campaign Iy taking advantage OF every
technicaiity. delay and dispossess obstruction
mat tho Law permits.
The nret tess case in the present campaign
VII he made before Justice Holman ;n the
Fifth District Coart to-day, when David
Steckler. Of $50. 800 Broadway. viii appear for
thirteen tenants Of 80. G12 East Eleventh-st.
who have been served with dispossess notices
f0r refusal 20 meet further rise in rent Mr..
Steciler VIII ask Tor "a stay in proceedings for
Ion-paymeut, oa the ground that a months
notice q the increase was not given 70 the ten
ants
In addition 10 a parade and demonstration.
monster mass meeting is being planned. TO take
place at Cooper Union next week TWO meet
fnrs 10 denounce the emotions Of the landlords
and 10 increase interest in the movement TO OBJ
tain co-operatlon and raise funds fer the cause
were held under the auspices q the New-York
Rent Protective Association, representing more
than twelve East Side organizations. at No. 90
,Essex-st. and the Grand Central Palace Clinton
and Delaney SITS. yesterday afternoon, and an
tother ia the evening.
Some two hundred persons. the bulk of whom
we're rent payers. attended the Essex-st meet
ing. Several detectives from the Seventh.
Twelfth ana Fourteenth precincts. who were
son hand 20 guard Hgainst disorder. took down
The speeches in shorthand. MenasChe kortz
presided. advocating combination among the dis
affected tenants. the raising OF a fund 10 pay
the rents OF evicted tenants. and the ultimate
leasing OF The tenements by The tenants them
Eelres
Perhaps the most ezcitabe speaker was Max
Davis, an associate OF Joseph Barondess. tho
,ex-leader OF The taiors. who declared that the
Elrst meeting OF the striking Jailors under Bar
ondess. which resulted in an organization Of
more than ten thousand persons. was no larger
shan the he addressed. Others urged the
need OF forming organization so strong ana
complete that when q single landlord raised the
rents OF house all the tenants would refuse 20
may The increase and compel The landlord 20
'evict them n q body. IN that contingency the
tenants would boycott the property owner
It was also urged that tenants combine and
compel landlords TO have printed on their TT
ceipt forms promise that they would not raise
1he rents FOR twelve months
At the close Of the meeting Miss Bertha Leib-
sen, the treasurer, the only woman in the New
York Rent Protective Association passed the hat
her efforts in tho agitation Miss Leibsen, who is
SeconG-aye cloak makers daughter has been
dubbed the East Side Joan Of Arc. When Miss
Leibsen iOined the association two weeks ago,
there were only twelve members To-day there
sre more than ten times that number. The
membership fee is - cents
Before Justice Hoffman to-day, David Steck-
Ter il was learned last night, VIII not only repre-
sent the protesting tenants Of The EleVenth-st.
tenement house Of which Morris JacObOwiUz is
the landlord, but any tenants who may have
been served with dispossesS notices for refusal
10 pay increased rents. A. least two hundred
disposses notices. il is understood are return
. bic in Justice H0ffmans court to-day. In four
Of the East Side municipal courts there are eX-
pectcd to he more than one thousand cases with
g. the next few days. in the lid Municipal
Court alone there are one hundred cases schee-
alod Tor Monday
Justice Boesch. who site in this court declared
-seferda1- that the increase OF rents the East
Side WAS an eloquent argument for haste IN rapid
transit extension.
Further meetings on behalf Of the afflicted
tenants are planned for Mckinney Hail. at No
- East Fourth-st.. on sunday night and at II
wing Hall on Tuesday.