Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-30
SOCIALISTS BACK MOVEMENT.
An Anti-High-Rent Bureau Organ
lied in New York.

NEW YORK, December 3O.-That the
socialist party organization is behind the
agitation for cheaper rents on the East
Side was demonstrated yesterday with the
organization Of The Anti-HighRent Blu
reau of the Socialist Party" The bureau
consists OF one member each from the Sec
ond, fourth and sixth assembly districts
and two from the eighth assembly district,
which is taking the lead in the rent strike.
Every member of the bureau is also a
member of the general committee of the
socialist party in New York.
Last night a hard-times conference was
held between the bureau and the United
Hebrew Trades. an organization of about
40 Jewish trades unions with a member
ship Of some 5000, most of whom are
socialists working in the clothing, fur and
cap industries: The conference deter
mined. in addition to helping the strikers
to get up an out-of-work demonstration
and to ask the city to start some kind Of
municipal construction project with the
view Of creating jobs for the unemployed
The party is also going to appoint a bu-
reau to find out the number of unem-
ployed in New York city. A rough esti-
mate puts the number at $1,000. On the
East Side the conditions are aggravated
the leaders declare. by the recession in the
clothing industries.
Some 5000 tenants got together at the
New Palace Hall. at 200 East Broadway,
yesterday afternoon and passed resolu-
lions pledging all tenants living between
Stanton and Catherine streets and the
East river to stand out against the exac-
tons of the landlords. The meeting also
pledged its support to the socialist party
and declared that what its members
wanted~was not charity but work.
The socialist leaders said that rent
sfrikorg have a1sn NJ IN
twenty-sixth assembly district. centering
around Tooth street between I'd and I'd
avenues. and in Brooklyn, where the So
cialist headquarters, at 126 Cook street,
mented by house-to-house canvass in
all the districts affected and by the dis
tribution Of denunciatory leaflets. Every
tenant is being urged to insist on 80 per
cent reduction of his rent.
An attempt will again be made today to
resume the Rutgers Square meeting.
which the police broke up Saturday night
because 1t did not have a permit. This
time it is coming off. the leaders declare,
permit or no permit. A meeting will also
be called at 2O6 East Broadway. Today
Miss Pauline Newman goes UP to the
Bronx to start the ball rolling there
Leaders Of the East Side tenants who
are asitating for reduction of rents an
nounced today that landlords of two
apartment houses have accepted reduce
lions of 81 to $3.50 per month. In one case
the rent had been SIS to $23 a month, and
in the other $16 to SD. The leaders OPP
posed settlement on this basis, and urged
insistence upon 20 per cent reduction.
but the tenants ignored them and paid
their rent for January. securing also an
agreement that rents will not be advanced
for six months.
Jacob Frank, one of the leaders of the
striking tenants, said today that an in
vestigation shows that 90, 600 workers are
idle below 14th street. OF this NUMBER
1000 are said to be cloakmakers, and the
others cap and shirt makers, paperhane-
ers, painters, carpenters and bricklayers.