New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-07
EAST SIDE JOAN OF ARC
SHE LE4DS RENT FIGHT.
TzcO Mass Meetings-Petition 10
4WGyor TO 1UOzc Parade.

The storm OF indignant protest against the ex-
tortionate and UnjustifabIe raising of the rents
by the "cockroach" landlords and sub-lessees
has assumed proportions that bid fair to
swell into hurricane
Keep Away" dodgers printed in English and
Jewish. commanding tenants in the name Of
their children to boycott houses in which the
rents have been newly raised. are being distrib-
uted by the thousand Throughout the affected
districts; mass meetings nightly taking
Place, Mayor Mcclellan Is to be asked for per-
nit to parade and make a demonstration, and
certain influential residents Of the East Side fear
repetition of the kosher meat riots if the social
istic nagogues continue to have their way
The revolving tenants affirm that new Joan
Of Arc has arisen in their midst in the person OF
Miss Bertha Leibsen. the youthful daughter OF
q Second-st. cloakmaker. Miss Leibsen, who Is
secretary OF the New-York Protective Associa-
ton, is devoting every hour to campaign work
on behalf Of the tenants. and has already col
Iected considerable sum OF money TO organize
the opposition to high rents and obtain attOr-
neys to contest wholesale high handed evictions
for non-payment Of excessive rents.
L am going to devote everything a girl can TO
the poor tenant and to defeat the landlords
said Miss Leibsen last night, and I mean TO
win"
A monster meeting OF protest IS planned for
LOU p III dl No uD I4aSeA-St. billS
A. meeting Of the associations executive
committee last night at Mckinley Hall. No. "A
East Fourth-st at which delegates from the
Sisters and Brothers Society. the New-York
Russian and Polish Littauer Young Mems
Benevolent Association. the Cigarmakers' As
sociatioa Branch No. 54. the Russian Progress
sive Aid Society. the United Hebrew Trades and
many other organizations. it was resolved:
That the Mayor he asked to grant a permit for
a parade Os protest and a deCOnstra ton in
Seward Park. probably Monday;
That the tenement house dwellers organize to
defsay the extortions OF the landlords;
That a fund be raised TO employ attorneys TO
consider how best the landlords evictiOns may
be opposed.
It was charged that the landlords had syn
dicate and fund to raise the rents and It was
voted that a fund be raised and an organiza-
tion formed to combat them.
Miss Leibsen gave a $50 bond 70 protect the
association's interests I'm her campaign work
The date of the permit to be asked OF Mayor
Mcclellan is 10 be decided at the Essex-st. meet
ing to-day. :. Katz os No. Il East Third-st-,
is president Of the association and Max Ruche!-
son. who presided last night. is chairman OF
the executive committee.
a meeting wss also held-last nishC at the
American Hall. Nos. Z and 9 SecOnd-ave.. at
which Il was noticeable that the professional
agi,ator. rather than the representatives Of the
disaffeCted tenants. held the floor
A sample Of the English-Jewish Keep Away
handbills which are being distributed broad
cast over the East Side. and which specify the
street and number OF the blactlisted tenement
house. follows:
/ Tenants: Keep away from the house. No. --
East Eleventh-st.i
/ In the name of your children. We ask you not
. TO hire any rooms in this house, No -- East
I Eleventh-st.. as the house Is on strike because
the rent is raised by the landlord. and the rent
is raised every month and We want 70 put a stop
| TO it once and for all
Keep away. THE COMMITTEE
I At the mass meeting NJ american Hail. held
/ under the auspices of the Second Agitation Dis
/ trict Of the Social Democratic party and the
/ Downtown Young Peoples Social Democratic
. Club. \. Nj. SimOuS. Of Chicago. Editor OF The
7 international Social Review said IN speaking
/ of the social condition OF the Labo-inS classes
/ William r. Hearst has no more at heart
/ the interest OF the laborinE classes or Amer
/ lea than has President Roosevelt. Mr.. Hearst
/ is simply using the present unrest Of labor 20
. exploit himself"
I High Rents and Famine Prices was the
subject under discussion. and more than twenty
five hundred people Of both sexes. fully one
/ third Of whom were compelled 20 stand were
present
/ Benjamin Hd0fOr1 wanted to know how war
/ was - be waEed against the landlords. II you
/ hang the landlords to the highest EIbtet. what
/ will be the result he asked. Why. their
F property goes 10 their heirs or is left in trust
: with SOM trust company. and the tenants are
. I'm no way benefited by the first owners death.
The ouIv way is to profit by the ballot, and
thor, ssTp,yr with Hp landlords"