The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31

Rent Strikers In
Picket Lines
In Sharp Struggle
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supporting the strike. Four more
houses on the same block nos. 30l0,
3ol4, 3oSl and 1921 are preparing to
strike if their demands for lower
rents are not met by the landlord.
The block committee has arranged
lecture for Wednesday, Feb. LIST at
the National Workers Alliance, 50S
Adde Ave-, by Carl Winter, leader of
the Hunger March on Washington,
who will speak on workers problems.
Battle on East Side
More than 400 workers defied police
Dungeons and mounted police yester-
day afternoon in battle against the
eviction of striking tenants from 419,
418 l-2, 400 East 9Th st., and sue
ceeded In taking the furniture which
the marshall carried into the street
back into the apartments.
The eyictions took place early in
the morning when there was only a
handful Of workers present. Mounted
police and IS cops on foot were
stFategically placed around the build
ing to form a protective Gordon
around the Tammany marshal and
his helpers.
Late in the morning the crowd was
swelled to several hundred by neigh
borS and members of the Unemployed
Council. The police drew deadline
half a block from the building and
pushed the crowd as we'll as the large
mass picketline beyond this line.
Giving ill momentarily, the workers
held meeting beyond the deadline,
but as their number swelled in the
afternoon, they formed a solid front
and marched towards the furniture
On the curb, where a speakers stand
was quickly erected.
Workers Fight
Instantly the police swung their
clubs on the speakers and on the
massed audience. The workers fought
back. t
Some OF leading members OF the
Unemployed Council were pointed
out over two blocks away and slugged
by the police,
While the police beat down speakers
on the street, workers climbed on
fire escapes and spoke TO the crowd
below. When police tried 10 get at
the speakers on the fire escapes
through the building, residents in
that house jeered at the cops and re-
fused to let them pass.
Additional evictions are scheduled
to take place Tuesday morn ng. ALL
WORKERS OUT IN FRONT OF AIS
E. 9Th St., this morning 8. so a. M
McAnliffe In Charge
The brutal exhibition was under
the personal direction of Inspector
McAuliffe who has been transferred
to scene of the rent strike because OF
his efficiency in quelling the legiti-
mate demands of the oppressed
worker by the most modern and most
outrageous methods.
Frank Barth, who was dubbed. and
beaten last Friday, at 18th Street and
Ave A, during the evictions, leaves
Bellevue Hospital today, and will
stand trial on charge of disorderly
conduct this morning at the Magis-
trates Court.
Thursday p. m. at Manhattan
Lyceum there will be a mass protest
meeting against police terror. The
meeting is called by the Downtown
Unemployed Councils.
Al Face Eviction
Seventeen we're evicted yesterday
at 2420 Bronx Park East and ~ more
have dispossess notices.
About 100 police came down at ;
A. M. and surrounded the block ant
the marshall came a few minute:
later with three car loads of gang.
sters and broke into the apartments
Furniture was chucked bodily into {
muddy lot across the way.
M. Rubin, correspondent of thu
Daily Worker and Freiileit was
beaten up, and Klebert, a tenant
coming to his rescue was also bea
up.
A huge crowd assembled, and il
spite of the police held an open ali
meeting at 3 p, m.
The rest of the tenants took in tn,
families evicted.
Fight in Railways
Police were forced to battle tenant.
in the halls before they were abb,
to evict two families at 226 Barret st
in Brooklyn yesterday, SO police anc
riot squads swarmed the block
Workers were beaten up in theil
homes when they objected to beins
evicted
Despite this terror picketing viii
continue, the tenants determined tt
prevent the evictions scheduled fol
today.
The families evicted were those O.
Gravitz and Wexler. The presiden
Of the Brownsville Landlords Asso
citation, Epstein, socialist, hal
threatened further terror agaains
the workers.