Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-07
DEEP ANXIETY MANIFEST
Hoped That Cases Would Obstruct
Courts for Weeks.
THE RED.FLAG OPPOSITION
Contention With the Leaders Over
Socialistic Phase Of Movement.
Demonstration Planned.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, January Hundreds Of
anxious rent strikers from all parts of
the East Side beset the thirteenth dis
trict municipal court, at 264 Madison
street. this morning to try and delay
the proceedings that their landlords were
pressing against them. Their anxiety
marked a change that has taken place
in the body of strikers since the news
went around that nearly 600 warrants
for evictions were being held over them
today at the order of Justice Sanders
for issue to the marshals tomorrow
Tenants in many cases were hanging
around the court building in tho hope Of
there. that they may offer to pay the
landlords in full. Other tenants wanted
TO settle their trouble by paying their
rent to the court. The throng all seemed
10 De looking for some way to make
peace with their landlords.
The strikers had hoped that their
cases would obstruct the courts for
weeks The summary disposal of sew
eral hundred of their cases has much
lessened their confidence of success
There was a falling off in the daily
total of tenant and landlord settlements.
which was due to a tendency on the land
lords part to hold out and see how the
action of the municipal court would affect
tH- tChohtS- 1|ouuiOIuS SttUleu IIluCH less
willing than be fore to abate their rents.
At Strike Headquarters.
Another crowded spot this morning was
strike headquarters. Only a portion Of the
crowd was able to gain entrance to the
headquarters room. The committee, I'M
able to hold out against the pressure of
the strikers about them, had locked them
selves In a small side room. One repre-
sentative they left outside to tell the peo-
pie what to do.
Many of the strikers are angry with
their leaders, not only because of the
arrival of the time of evictions, but on
account of what they believe was the COM
m.ttee's Intentional act in dragging in
questions of socialism when the strike had
been started. with the assurance that It
had nothing to do with politics. They be-
lieved that the use of the red flags on GER
tain of the striking tenements, which had
alienated the sympathy Of many from the
strikers. was dEs to the suggestions of the
socialist leaders.
In spite of this feeling the socialists are
planning for big socialist demonstration
among the strikers. to be held in honor of
Petttbone. the Idaho labor leader in case
he reaches New York.
Red Flags in Rent War.
More than 800 warrants for the eviction
of tenants participating in the strike for
lower rents were issued yesterday in the
municipal court. The papers authorize
the immediate eviction of the tenants
against whom they were drawn. 1t will
probably take a score of marshals nearly
two weeks to serve the notices The ten
ants continue to maintain a stout fight,
and announced yesterday that the land
lords of fifty-one houses had already
agreed to reduce rents.
The OF Side ralr
the riotous disorders of Sunday, when the
police were forced to club the crowds to
check the excited tenantry. who opposed
the removal Of the red flags which fut-
tered from the tenements. There were
several meetings of the striking tenants
last night.