Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1920, Page 7

eS aie ee > Che Casper Daily Cribune_ “TENTS INN. Pome “ok Anti-Profiteeting Bills in Assembly Traced to ~Shameless- Admission of Guilt By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. NEW YORK, April 2.—New York ts'f on; the verge of “ rent rebellion. At least, Such is the current report being; whispered in a loud stage whisper in Gotham. Hints of this coming catas- trophe are almost as numerous as the tenanta’ recently evicted from their homea, and theatmoaphere in all of thd residential diatricts appear to be charg. ed with desperate motives. Gradually, the tenants: who have suf- fered from rent-profiteering during the» past year are organizing in their va- rious boroughs and preparing for ac. tion. They have not yet decided just what the action is to be, but all are agreed that. they must take it. Ten- ants’ mass meetings are being hold on} ‘an average of every other night, tere |* ants’ petitions and protests are keeping | ‘the printers busy, and the temper of}* these meetings and protests may be. gathered from the following excerpt from an ex-soldier tenant's speech which | public health; ‘waa delivered. from a.soan-box Ve see py She pr ga EVOLT. LEV ‘the other evening: “We .went to war to protect our| homes, . ladies. and ger tlemen, and now that ‘we have returned we: find them svrested’ from ‘us by an enemy. mor insidioys, more VMainous than the Hun. I neegd, not=say who that enemy is— Here loud applause from tho aurdi- nce. signified: that he need not, Lut uld| not resist the ftemp- inyway. all know all. suffered from. his hideous attack: That enemy, ladies and gentlemen, k:/ [especially since they began to hear dis-| the rent profiteer. A few nights later, a circular was distributed from the platform 6f a almilaromeeting, calling. on all outrage? tenants }to join the Tenants’ Rights Teague of: Greater New York, “which fs seeking to bring together into one organization one million tenants to re- sist to the utmost, through concerted action, further Profiteering in the hame of our. / “Pull advertisements in the dati papers placards in the street cara. subway, and elevated trains will “-muke these leeching home-breakers rh up. the white flag and call for mercy.” OLD IMPERIAL FLAG DURING OCCUPATION OF BERLIN—Scene on the Wilhelm Platz, Berlin, the day after the Kapp revo- tutionary troops occupied ‘the capital, The imperial flag of the old German mon- have to say much ‘at all. They had come prepared to convince the legisia- tube, by a tremendous accumulation of evidence and argument, that rent-prot- Mtecring was going wn, and then the Jandlords beat them to it and supplied all the evidence for them, It was a2 ttle disappointing, but most profituhle. ‘The most important rent-relief bill now before the legisiture is one which construes as “presumptilely oppressive” all rent increases in excess of twenty- five per cent, which have been made in New York since April 1, 1919; und which gives the courts power to pass upon all such cases. Another limits 2 Jandiord’s profits to twenty per cent under the broad police powers of the state, which may be extended to cover matters affecting public health. The tenants had hoped to secure aven better terms than these. They want a bill passed, limiting a landlord's profitx to ten per’ cent on the samé sort of a basis that loan sharks are limited in their profits, as well as public utilities, under. -present .conditions, they assert, ts just as much of a public service as | these latter, and should be treated as such, Indeed, some of the tenants’ leagues are working for municipal housing with ever-increasing gusto. The city has appropriated money with which to build docks for rent; “so why not houses?" they ask. While the city has so far exhih- ited no enthusiasm for a civic housing | program, several of its officials have re- cently stated that they feared it would be forced upon them. The city is short of houses and apartments for hundreds of thousands of families. The majority of its apartments are crowd- | ed'to the point of being a menace to while recently large num- bers of the.homeless have becen com- pelled to seek shelter in dilapidated lofts. Housing facilities, as is only too weil known, are scarce all over the country as a result of the lack of building dur- such as street cars and gas, Housing, tressing are the épnitiisions in Hack- Republicans ot Hawait meet in terri-;select their delegates ensack, for instance, the the munici-| torial convention at Honolulu today to} convention. pality recently offered to evicted tca- ants the unoccupied apartments in the city jail. Commenting on this at a recent ten- ants’ mass meeting in New York, the speaker stated that such an offer would} ‘be_eagerly accepted by many families | # in his neighborhood. * “No, we won't occupy the jail," cor- iF 3 ected a mild-faced tenant in ‘the au! dience, flourishing his arms in a biqod-| thirsty manner. “We'll reserve that] J for the landlords.” Thought 3 Little Children Needed Mother’s Care | “My stomach suffering was so devises that I could not have lasted much long-! er, I did not care so much for myself | but did not want to teave my three li tle children who needed a mother's 10 and care. A cousin in California wrote! about Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy, jana I took a course of It. I have sinee} been entirely well.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the jeatarrhal mucus “from the intestinal | tract and gllays the inflammation which | causes practically all stomach, liver and | intestinal ailments, including appendt cjtis. 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Thus, all. might have gone well with rent-profiteering had not the Jandlords sent a large dele- gation to combat an even larger delega tion of tenants to. Albany. This dele, tion mate-the mistake of being impo- lite to the legislators. They said thut if laws were passed restricting the profits from rents they would go to court amt Ihaye them, declared unconstitutional, and they finally frankly told the assem- bly that they had the inalienable right to profiteer jf they wanted to. should put on all the price that tle! trade will fairly bear is to be expecte., he“said, “but that they should stake} the big stick at the same. time and) shout percentages which no one cise can consider fair or reasonable is, to; say the least, a psychological blunde: It inevitably works to their own di: advantage. Blatant talk just furnishes the apology, the excuse, which, dema-| gogues, or dreamers, or both, need. to put over repressive legislation, regard- Yess of economic truth.” Whatever it may have furnished to} the demagogues and dreamers, it at least furnished the tenants with a splen- did argument, After the landlords got thru, in fact, the tenants really didn’t FOR SALE in New York and New Jersey suburbs. @ MADE BY SCOTT @ BOWNE < 214 O. S. Building in the So’ dis. JPHABRHRHHERHHBRE EERE Phone 915 SEH EEE HHO GHEE HHH HEE HER EEEHHHHEHEEE HRN KHAIF AT LEEEE Now, to profiteer is one thing and to admit it quite shamelessly is another, As puraved the circular dramatically, ‘“I'his is your hattle. Do not look for a sub. stitute to do your fighting. Get an Shes thé landlords soon found out. Lots'3 and 4 in block 189, firing line with your victimized bra-iicr |ON€ sctandulized elitor commented, and go into action at once. ne could fail to be So far as is known, the only firing line the tenants have in mind at present is situated in the midst of the state les- . lature at Altany, but occasionrlly re is a threat of staging a more vio- it © should this battle end disas- caer? of the legajacure of rent-profites: it lias been “on i Rees the adits ition of all students of ites. TE Ras uro- tésnedt edly im thé form of imu- ftetahle bi greedy EASILY TRACED Thousands who are none too one tree h sil net do atten sha tae the - a stern desire co punisn| landlords . According ta one “Al- bany authority, it. has~ introduced as many as 81 Such disciplinary ménsures during the present. session... Again we have heard it was 18, but swhetner 18 or 80,'the fact remains, 23 th? Balt au- thority points out, that thare is nitb- ing easier than. to introdace a bil! in legigiative ‘body, provided you, are a eta The difficulty lies in getting For a while this sympathetic but.im- potent course fatisfied the tenants, but | recently, as the evictions and dispossess notices increased, it was suggested to the legislature. that a little action would not be displeasing. Thus, urged and prodded by thelr constituents, the mem- bers of the state assembly at last re- luetantly narrowed their attention to nine of the most promising bills ant announced that they were about ready to put a few of them through. “Immediately, new protests hegan to arrive in Albany, but this time from outraged landlords, who asserted that the passage of any bills curtailing thelr activities would simply spoil everything. They pleaded with the legislature to use alittle common sense. 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