New-York tribune., 1907-12-30
TENANTS MAY MEET.
RENT STRIKER RELEASED.
Police Can't Interfere 7chen Notice
Has Been GiUen, Says Court.

Samuel EdelSteln, WHO was dTTeSleu Oh
day night for taking part in rent strikers
meeting was discharged in Essex Market court
Yesterday. it being held that Commissioner
Bingham could not prevent such meetings pro-
vided notice of the intention to hold them had
been given to the police. Jacob Panken, who
advised the continuance of the meeting after a
police warming hailed this as a triumph yes
terday afternoon.
The chief meeting of the recalcitrant tenants
yesterday was at No 2O9 East Broadway. where
a hundred or more gathered to hear Samuel
Davidson and other speakers advise firmness In
meeting the rent collectors on Thursday, when
the crisis of the present agitation will come.
The speakers urged everyone to refrain from
disorder and to leave the actual Waging OF the
war on the landlords to Mr. Panken, Morris Hill
quist and other lawyers, who are going to fight
the cases of those on whom dispossess warrants
are served.
In addition TO the main meeting in East
Broadway there were impromptu gatherings all
day. The steps of tenement houses and their
Railways became forums. and speeches in all
the tongues of the polyglot East Side beat their
way into the outer air. The East Side Jew pc
comes an orator when ne talks to more than
one person, and all the silver tongued ones have
had plenty to supply them with material in the
that there will be lot more material to work
with this week than there was last.
About fifty thousand persons have now made
rp their minds to take the chance of being
evicted and the landlords will find heroic meas
ures necessary. They expect violence in some
parts of town. but it is safe to say that few of
the real tenant strikers will be concerned in any
trouble there may be.
All day yesterday the headquarters of the
ant-high rent movement. at No 3l3 Grand
street, were thronged with tenement dwellers
who wished to join the movement. AT . p m.
Joseph c. Caplan, president of the anti-hlgh
rent agitation bureau. estimated that fifteen
hundred tenants had visited the headquarters
Twenty-Five committees of two out all day
visiting the tenants, and reported the organiza-
ton Of sixty houses. These committees report
that at many houses the landlords or janitors
were on guard and tried to prevent thelS en-
trance. The tenants of each house supplied
with statement of their position by the COM
nittee, and two of the tenants are chosen to
conduct negotiations.
The county committee of the Socialist party
has appointed committee of five to cooperate
with the committee of two hundred organized
by the tenants under the auspices Of the East
Side Assembly district organizations of the So
evening. mass meeting will also be held this
evening at Terrace Lyceum, No oO6 East
Broadway. and NUMBER of open air meetings
proba bly, in Rutgers Square.
j. Wasserman, landlord Of Nos IS and 70
Stanton street, who had served six disposses
notices on rebellious tenants. has already con-
ceded a 81 reduction of rent. Miss Cecilia Ar
Kin, who has taken an active part in the rent
strike. lives In this house which il q doubIe
families.
Inc landlord at No. 115 EIdridge street offered
a reduction Of so cents month yesterday. but
the tenants refused 10 accept such a small con-
cession At No 45 Avenue r twentvsavan
heads OF families held meeting on the roof
as there was no room in the house big enough
TO hold them all. and agreed TO strike for q dol
lar reduction.
The rent strike and the financial strincencv
were taken up yesterday by the Central FEEDER
ated Union at the instigation Of the socialist
delegates After the landlords had been de-
nounced for some time Elias Wolf. of Cigar
makers Union No. 90 socialist said.
What about the financial Crisiso T haIisya
that II should be looked into. and we should 80
quest the President of the United States n in
terest himself in the question and provide work
for the unemployed"
IL was finally decided TO saddle the executive
committee with the responsibility of finding :,
solution for the whole trouble The connI,tea
was instructed to think out a remedy and sub
nit ii to the meeting next Sunday.
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