The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-11
W Orkers Push
Chicago Fight
On Segregation
Rent Strike Declared in
Fight Against Eviction
of Herbert Newton
tDalIy worker Midwest sur,.u,

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CHICAGO. Dec. 10. - Herbert
Newton, outstanding Negro Com.
munist leader, and Harriet Williams.
white worker with whom he shares
an apartment at 6l5 Oakvood
Boulevard, we're suddenly evicted Ia
the snow last Friday morning.
Within few hours, their furni.
ture had been returned to the apart.
ment by indignant Negro and white
workers, who also set up a picket
line in front of the home of the
white landlord, DR.. Mitchell. At s4a
Woodlawn Park.
When several weeks ago, Newton
With his wife and baby. moved into
Miss Williams apartment, the land.
lord ordered her to evict them or
surrender the fiat. Miss williams
refused, and the courts came 10 tina
aid of the chauvinist landlord, with
Judge Thomas A. Green issuing an
eviction order at the request of the
landlord. Fridays unsuccessful at
tempt to eYict the two families was
carried out without the customary
24-hours eviction notice, as Chicago
landlords, the courts and police
Joined in concerted effort to block
the growing mass fight organized by
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights around the case.
A protest rent strike was declared
last wednesday night by all Of the
white tenants in the building. and
a drive has been launched to or.
ganize a similar strike in DR.,
Mitchell's jin-crow house at 571s
Calumet Avenue, where he exactS
exorbitant rents from Negro ten.
ants whom he bars from his oily
white" houses.
Mass Delegation Visits Mayor
A mass delegation of the white
tenants at 6l5 lakewood Boulevard
and many workers organizations
visited Mayor Kelly's office on
Thursday to demand that the city
safeguard the constitutional rights
of the Negro people. They were met
by the mayors personal representa-
tive, Mr.. Wright, who suaVely evaded
the issues raised, but under pressure
agreed to arrange to have the mayor
meet the delegation this week. The
delegation was elected at a mass
protest meeting held here last We'd
nesday, at WHICH Bob Minor, Karl
Lockner, Communist candidate for
mayor in the present municipal
election campaign, Newton, Com
ilunist candidate for City Clerk, and
William Heitler, one of the white
tenants at 6l5 lakewood Boulevard,
spoke.
Negro Alderman Refuses TO Act
Forty-three delegates, represent
ing m any organizations, walked
three miles through snow and sltsh
Friday afternoon to see William
Dawson, Negro Republican alder
man Of the Second Ward, to demand
that he take stand against racial
segregation. Whiting under David
Poindexter's fire, Dawson still re-
fused to do anything, thoroughly
disillusioning the Republican mem
bers Of the delegation, who later in
the day Joined other workers in re-
turning the furniture to the apart
iiaef1t
Another delegation visited Tittin-
ger, Democratic ward leader, last
Saturday afternoon.
Negro and white workers pickett
ing DR.. Mitchell's home on Satur-
day were arrested, but later released.
Their signs, denouncing segregation
and -crowisra, we're confiscated
by the police. Preparations are now
being made for mass picketing Of
DR.. Mitchell's home and houses he
owns.
Protests against the eviction order
are flooding Judge Thomas A.
Green, Municipal Court, and DR..
Mitchell.