The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-09

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The picketing, however, is at
18th Street and Avenue A.
Every tenant has suffered
because of the economic condi-
tions. The workers have en-
1ured wage-cut after wagecut,
or have been thrown entirely out, of
Jobs. The market for artists is
ruined Writers face the same cir
cumstances.
The rents paid by these tenants
have not been reduced in two years.
The tenants have advised the land
lord of their worsened conditions.
They have requested the Is per cent
cut
The landlord has refused. His rents
are higher than those of other land
lords in the neighborhood. His agent
on the premises. in fact, recently re-
marked to a fellow-landlord, on the
question of rents, that: We're still
getting away with the old graft"
The tenants have been placed by
the landlord in such position where
they have no other way TO obtain
their right to cheaper rent than by
refusing to pay rent until the land
lord gives in.
Demands for no eyictions Of those
who cannot pay rent, and for recog-
milton of the house committee also
are being put forth. Picket today!
Bronx Workers Reused
The Bronx rent strike and anti
eviction struggle has been gaining
force all last week 1t reached a
high point Friday when hundreds Of
pickets from the rent strike at 1888
Charlotte Street marched to the two
Franklin Avenue strikes cat 1877 and
1892. then the united force marched
together in a singing. shouting pro-
cession to a mass meeting in front
of 1049 Bryant, where demonstra-
ton Of about 5000 took place. We're
all here in the same fight declared
speakers from the house committees
and mass organizations.
Speakers complimented the Daily
Worker and Morning Freiheit on
presenting the tenants side of the
case. which appears only in these
papers. The Forward" and CAPT
talist papers have done everything
they could to ridicule and discor-
age the strikers, printing lies about
their demanding Frigidaires" and
other nonsensical statements.
Leading in mobilizing the neigh
borhood for these picket lines have
been the Bronx Workers Club and
Prospect Workers Club, the Women's
Council, the units Of Sections and
Is of the Communist Party, the U. S.
Bank Depositors organization, the
Charlotte Street Block Committee,
the Unemployed Council branch at
l 400 Boston Road, and other workers
organizations.
Fight Evictions
-Four dispossess notices will be
served on tenants in 1049 Bryant
today, and mass picketing by all in
the neighborhood is called for this
morning.
Thousands have picketed during
the week at 1888 Charlotte Street
Saturday the place was guarded by
police, and private detective near
the entrance stopped and quizzed all
who approached. But mass demon
stration and picketing continued
An attempt will be made to evict two
families today. There is sickness In
one of these families. All are called
to picket.
The two strikes on Franklin Ave
nue. are near the Charlotte Street
strike. and there has been an inter-
change of speakers and pickets at
the picketing demonstrations. the
10th Street Block Committee issues
special call for mass picketlng at
these addresses. 1892 Franklin and
1877 Franklin today, to stop three
threatened evictions at 1892 Franklin
The Young Communist League
sends a special invitation to Bronx
rent strikers and pickets to attend
its Anti-War meeting in Ambassador
Hall. Wednesday, at 8 pm IAN war
funds to the unemployed" is a slogan
of the Y. G. l..
Williamsburg Struggle
While the Home Relief Bureau at
Public school 43 in Williamsburg
keeps UP sham struggle with the
landlords. wave of evictions threat
ems in that section.
The Relief Bureau refuses TO pay
over one months rent and often
misses the payment altogether, so
the landlords refuse to accept
months rent check for three or six
months rent and new eviction no
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