The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-06
HOUSES AT COST
SLOGAN IN FIGH 7
UPON RENT HOGS
Women's Council in
Active Campaign

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thousand copies of the following APP
peal to working women for action
against the high rent evil have been
distributed by the United Council of
Workingclass Women:
1t is clear now to everyone that
nothing has resulted from all the hub
bub about the Rent and Housing
question.
The Governor had appointed spe-
cial commission. This commission in
vestigated and submitted report.
This report gave terrible picture Of
overcrowding, of unbearable housing
conditions, of unsanitary surround
ings, of exorbitant rents.
1t was a damning indictment
against the laws that were passed in
1920, for the report proved that these
laws failed to relieve the rent and
housing crisis. The extension of the
Rent laws for another three years
will not relieve us. The rents remain
high; the landlords make few or no
repairs we are compelled to live in
unwholesome housing conditions: fire
traps are still our living quarters.
Laws AI0eo Landlords.
Even these rent laws were passed
four years ago thru the agitation
among US working class women who
organized and demanded relief. But
the real benefits went not to us
workers, but to the landlords and the
property owners who got their new
buildings free from all taxes. And the
rents in these new buildings were so
high that a workers family couldn't
afford to live in them!
The trouble was that we working
class women fought each in a sepa-
rate group. When the law was ex-
tended we thought we had won and
gave up fighting. Our organizations
fell to piecd and the politicians
stopped being afraid Of us.
The working class women must
again take up the matter.
1. All existing working class
women must organize and affiliate
to the existing working class wom-
ems organization.
2. All the unorganized women
must organize and affiliate to the
existing working class women's or
ganization.
3. We must work Immediately
for lower rents, better housing and
abolition of firetrap tenements.
4. We must create a great pow
erful permanent organization, one
that will stand ready at a moments
notice to take up problems that
affect the interests of the workers.
Such a women's organization is al
eady in existence-The United Coun-
ell of Workingclass Women. It's aim:
The Protection of Workingclass Inter-
ests.
as Organizations United.
Forty-six workers organizations
are already affiliated, and are sup
porting the Council. Recently, the
Council took up the Rent and Hous-
ing problem. 1t started a campaign
against fire-trap tenements. 1t is
working to organize the working class
women upon a concrete program for
housing and rent relief. The United
Council of Workingclass Women will
hold monster demonstration on Nav
II in which tens of thousands of
working class women and their chill
dren win march to City Hall. There
they will demand that the City Ad-
ministration or the State build hous-
es for the workers that will rent at
cost, as is being done in England.
Seven working class women or
more can get together and write TO
the Council for an organizer. Don't
wait. Get your group and send in
the names and addresses. Our land-s
lords are organized 100 per cent. To-
day they send us notices. Tomor-
row, when we are strong, we will send
them notices.
UNITED COUNCIL OF
WORKINGCLASS WOMEN.
Office: 1877 University place |
Office hours PA daily. except
Saturdays and Sundays. TEL |
Bet. pa o'clock Kate Git-sI
low, Secretary.
p. S. Any workers organizations !
either men or women are permitted |
one delegate to the Council. Elect |
your delegates and communicate with |
the secretary.
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