New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-13
lsMass Meetings
M Tenants to Plan
Housing Reforms
c.u,paign to Extend ALI
Leases Until Oct. /, 1922,
To Be Started To-days
yuelges to Make Addresses

determined campaign 60 inaugurAte
A,nr dysstic reforms in New York's
s orsirr situation, to safeguard thou
$3.50 81 tenants before the October
.ssss;ns rush starts, will get under way
sa-Ay. This will take the form of
Ain mass meetings, to be held in
Tsnhsssan, the Bronx. Brooklyn and
oseens, at which q number Of promi-
,sat. speakers will be present.
Concluding the series, and by far the
.axt important, will be mass meeting
ssrt Sunday night at Carnegie Hall,
ahich all members of the Legislature
a. we'll as the gubernatorial candidates
ssya been invited to attend and ad-
dress. Many have accepted.
Principal Reforms Sought
gere are the four principal reforms
sought:
,ay in force until October /, 1922, on
the anne terms and conditions at pres
emit agreed upon.
Z < law which will limit to 8 per
aaenaent of property.
3. The compulsory filing by real es-
sate owners with the Tax Commits
ssoB3r OF sISSSAneAt VI receipts ana
disbursements.
1. A law authorizing an assessment
BY the Tax Commissioner on real es-
tate based upon q 10 per cent net re-
turn, after deducting 5 per cent in con-
alteration Of depreciation.
Ths mass meetings will be held un-
der the auspices Of the Federation Of
Professions and Business of the State
Of New York, whose headquarters is
at 2e2 West Eighty-sixth Street.
In his announcement Of the meetings
Dr.. Charles F. Gilman, the Fedora
tons president, said that the speakers
wouid include:
Judges Frederick Speigelberger, ia
cob Strahl and Harry Robitzek, DR..
Gilman, Arthur Hilly, chairman Of the
Mayors Committee on Rent Profiteer-
ing; Leo Kenneth Mayer, counsel to
the Mayors committee; Captain
Charles A. Goldsmith and ]. P. Wilson,
also of the committee; DR.. Royal S.
Copeland, Health Commissioner; AS
semblyman Sol Ulman. William C.
Amos, Senator P. A. Abeles, of the
Broax; S. E. Schlechter, Henry S.
Hunter, E. A. c. Llnterman and Tene-
asrs House Commissioner Frank
damn.
Final arrangements Of the campaign
will be made tonight at conference
Of ehairmen in the Hotel Astor.
In 9 statement issued yesterday John
]. Murphy, secretary Of the Tenement
House Committee, denied that there
have been at any time 10000 vacant
apartments, as repeatedly published.
He said that a careful count made by
taaF< ~ 1s$y l.
less than $500 apartments.
Schedule of Mass Meetings
The weeks schedule of mass meet
ngs follows:
Tuesday night-Curtis High School,
Richmond, Staten Island; Bryant Hiah
School. Long Island City.
Wednesday night-Evander Childs
High School, Crescent Avenue and
bath Street; Public School SO, Long
wood Avenue, Kelly and Beck streets;
Norris High School, 166th Street and
Boston Road; Public School "a, Inter-
vale Avenue and Freeman Street; all
in the Bronx.
Thursday night-Public School, 62,
Hester, Essex and Norfolk streets;
Public School 1903, 10th Street and
Madison Avenue; Public School It's,
llsth Street, between St. Nicholas and
Audubon avenues; Public School SO,
Broadway and Academy Street; High
School Of Commerce, Sixty fifth Street,
vest Of Broadway.
:. Friday night-Public School TAT,
asserole, Lorimer and McKibben
streets; Public School 1913, Meserole,
Lorimer and Guernsey streets; Bay
Ridge High School, Fourth Avenue and
SIXTY seventh Street, and Public School
", Osborn. Watkins and Suffer ave-