Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-20

mittee of landlords and tenants
could not possibly have.
I'VE therefore respectfully suggest
that sincere desire on the part Of
the Washington Real Estate Board
to aid the tenants of Washington
who are suffering from or threatened
with abuse might well take the fol-
lowing forms:
IL. The publication by the Real
Estate Board Of It's entire list of MEM
bers, SO that the keenly Interested
citizens of Washington may be able
to discriminate between landlords of
high ideals and those who are taking
advantage of the decision of the court
TO harass and unjustly treat their
tenants
~. Restraint of the members of
the Washington Real Estate Board
from the use of the injunction to hin
der the operation of the Rent Com
mission.
y. The maintenance of only just
and fair rentals by the members of
the Washington Real Estate Board.
-. Cessation of personal attacks
by members of the Washington Real
Estate Board upon members of the
Rent Commission.
>. Hearty cooperation by the
Washington Real Estate Board with
the Tenants League in it's determi-
nation to curb imitation of real estate
values by the placing of fictitious
trusts upon property.
70 Honest effort on the part of the
Washington Real Estate Board to Sc
cure prompt and effective judicial
ection against those real estate firms
who have been exposed in such prac-
tees by Report No. $40 of the Senate
committee on housing conditions in
the District of Columbia.
-. Cordial support of the efforts
of the Tenants League to secure a
new and permanent law for the Dis
trict of Columbia which shall be just
and fair to landlords and tenants
alike and whose provisions shall be
so definite that it shall not he sub
iect to attack through the courts.
'Nerv truly yours.
"EDWARD H. SCHIRNER, Pres.
MRS. HENRY c. BROWN, Secy."
Bearing on L. :. Employees.
The District of Columbia Federation
of Federal Employees Unions declared
in its statement: The rent situa-
ton in Washington is so serious in its
hearing upon the Federal employees
that it borders on a tragedy. II
states that nearly half of the "meager
salary OIL the government einplOSe IL
spent in rent. The alleged ubiquitous
financing is termed as one of the
reasons for the situation, and urges
that all members of the Federation
get behind the work of the Tenants
League.
A permanent housing commission
along the lines of the present Rent
Commission us urged by the fedora
ton. The housing of Government en-
ployes by the Government is termed
in the statement very little less of a
public business than the housing OF
the men who comprise the national
forces.
Opposition is voiced against the re-
altors' proposal of joint committee
because of the existence now of the
Rent Commission. And that such a
conference would supply the spec
tacle of the novice pitted against the
experts" which would be unfair. they
state.
Federal employees selected under
the terms of the civil service act from
every State in the Union, and COM
PEELED by the circumstances of their
employment to live in Washington
and immediate vicinity, should not, on
what is virtually Government res
ervation, be allowed to become vic
tins of unlimited private eXploita-
tion," the federation declares.