Evening star., 1936-03-06
1894 RENT LEVEL
FREEZING" ASKED
Mass Meeting Votes to
Form Association to Curb
Increases.

legislation to "freeze" rent maxi
NUNS at the level of January !, 1884.
was called for last night by a mass
meeting under the auspices of the
Central Labor Union Committee on
rents and low cost housing at Central
High School.
The meeting also indorsed the
Ellenbogen bill for a rent commission,
with the request that it be amended
to provide for labor and tenant rep
resentation, and adopted other resolu-
tions calling for:
Creation of District housing
authority to put through a loW-cost
housing project under Federal aus
pces;
Formation of rent payers asso-
citation" by civic, fraternal and well
fare groups, who are not represented
in organized labor. to cooperate with
the c. L. U. Committee;
More adequate sanitary regulations.
Conditions Attacked.
The resolution came from a commit
tee headed by Robert NJ Sentman,
president of the Federation of Archi-
tects, Engineers, Chemists and Tech
nicians. They were acted upon after
speakers had attacked housing condi-
tionS here.
A questionable asking for individual
housing data, and described as pre-
pared by the Resettlement Admins
tration, was distributed to those
attending the meeting, with the re-
quest that the information be for
warded to Wallace Richards, Division
of Suburban Resettlement. Envelopes
already addressed Eere furnished for
this puDose.
One question was: Would you want
to live in community such as the
one the Resettlement Administration
is building near Berwyn, Md" A
description of the Berwyn project ac-
companied the query.
Ellenbosen Ill.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee. who was scheduled
to speak, did not appear. Representa-
tive Ellenbogen, Democrat of Pennsyl-
yania, author of the rent control bill,
also was to have spoken, but sent a
letter saying he was confined with a
cold. He asserted the efforts of Cen
trail Labor Committee would have his
support. and expressed the hope
Congress would act on his bill at
this session.
DR.. j. Lawn Thompson of the
Medical Society of the District of Co.
lumbia appeared in place of DR.. Will
liam Charles White, president of the
tuberculosis Association, who also
was kept away by illness, and took
occasion to reply to the criticism of
the medical profession by Representa-
tive Blanton, Democrat, of Texas.
although he did not mention the
Texan by name.
Recalling the recent medical pro-
test mass meeting at Central, Dr.
Thompson said some remarks were
made on the health situation that I
think need some explanation.
"The question was asked" DR..
Thompson said: What are you doc
tors doing?'"
Cites Objectives.
He detailed then the fight Of the
profession to get q modern filtration
plant, to reclaim Potomac Park,
which, he said, had been "pestilential
swamp" and to provide for milk in
spection. The result, he emphasized,
had been to bring about a condition
where typhoid and malaria never
originate here any more, and to re-
duce the infant mortality rate from
impure milk:
BY cutting appropriations, Congress
is trying now Ito reduce your health
DR.. Thompson said, urg-
ing his hearers who have homes in the
States to acquaint those in their COM
munities with the situation here,
where we have no vote, nor voice In
the spending of our money"
James Miles, vice president Of the