The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 2

a Page Two T HE DAILY WORKER IRI S$ H BOSSES "Senator Cousens Lifts Veil on IN BLACKLIST OF REBEL FIGHTERS Irish Republicans Re- fused Employment Thousands of former members of the Irish Republican Army, who fought against the Black and Tans and protected the property of Irish businessmen from destruction during the civil war, are now rewarded by being blacklisted by these employers and cannot get a job, according to Mrs. Kathleen Clarke, widow of Tom | Clarke, one of the men who was ex- ecuted with James Connolly in the 1916 Irish revolution. Mrs. Clarke, a gray-haired rebel, is in America to tell the story of the present deplorable conditions in Ire- land under the so-called Free State government, She spoke in North Side Turner Hiall last Thursday night to a large audience, conspicyous by the absence of well-known politi- cians. “The Free State loan issue,” de- clared Mrs. Clarke, “was subsidized by the employing class, the Catholic and Protestant churches, the big in- surance companies and other sup- porters of British imperialism in Ire- land.” An instance of the brand of “pa| triotism” the Free State has blessed the Irish workers with, can be judged from the fact that uniforms for the Free State army were bought in England because it would cost more to have them manufactured in Treland. The methods employed by the Free State government to deprive the Irish workers of the franchise were explained by Mrs. Clarke. “After the Republicans succeeded in electing 44 Republicans,” she said, "in spite of all the obstructions the Free Staters could place in their way, the latter were afraid to allow the County Councils’ elections to take place last fall. The Free State gov- ernment realizing that the bulk of the republican vote came from the workers and the peasants, tried to pass a law which would give the property owner with a $10,000 valu- ation, four votes, one with a $5,000 valuation, two votes and one with $250 valuation one vote.” 5 Speaking of the influence of Bri- tish propaganda in the capitalist press of America, Mrs. Clarke said that the capitalist papers distorted the truth about the Irish movement or suppressed it, This remark was cheered by the audience, and when at the close of the meeting the chair- man, Captain Denis Molloy, an- nounced that the DAILY WORKER was for sale-in the hall, hundreds of copies were sold. In reply to questions from the floor, Mrs, Clarke stated that the rank and file of the labor unions in freland were in sympathy with the republican movement but that the leaders were reactionary. Mellon’s Governmental Milking For the Benefit of Rich Tr usts By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) Coolidge’s multi-millionaire secretary of the treasury is revealed as milking the government for the benefit of banks! and corporations which pay no income or corporation’ taxes, The curtain man is Senator James Couzens of Michigan, whose series of letters on the proposed reduction in surtaxes| have stumped Mellon of Pittsburgh. Couzen’s latest letter cha along the line. reducing the taxes of the rich \is characterized as a most stu- pendous attempt to mislead the people. The letter charges that lax jenforcement of the law is sparing the rich and cutting |down the revenues and that | the treasury is playing directly |into the hands of the corpora- tions. If Mellon were really interested in preventing the diminution of gov- ernment revenues, according to Couz- ens, he would be out, stopping the holes which permit the rich to evade the surtax law, The greatest loop- {hole for avoiding surtaxes is the for- mation of holding companies in addi- tion to the large number already in existence. Sinclair’s Hyva Corpora- tion was shown in the Teapot Dome hearings to have been formed for this purpose. According to the testimony of General Counsel Standford of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., it was created to hold Sinclair’s interests receive his income without neces- sitating the payment of surtaxes. For the only tax on the income of corporations no matter how derived is the regular 12% per cent tax. Here is a new method of evasion revealed by Couzens. A very rich man, who uses most of his money to extend his power over working men by reinvestment, can create a corporation to receive his investment income for him. This dummy does not have to pay the graduated in- come tax or the surtax, only the straight 12% per cent corporation income tax, It ean act as the rich man’s second personality investing his huge income and -extending his contro] over workers in various in- dustries and in all parts of the world. Challenging the good faith of Mel- lon’s expressed desire to collect more revenue from these incomes which are now escaping the tax gatherer, Couzens asks: “Is there any reason why corporations should not pay the same income tax on their receipts from interest on bank balances, divi- dends on stocks and interest on bonds and securities as. individuals do?” " Mellon has turned over to the banks more than $100,000,000 thru selling them billions of doilars of government securities bearing unrea- sonably excessive rates. According to Couzens: “The excessive interest you are paying is proved by the fact that every issue you put out is enor- mously oversubscribed. In fact you lienges Mellon’s good faith all His promise to reduce the cost of living by are payin states and cities are paying for their borrowing. Your own bank, the Mellon National of Pittsburgh, holds nearly forty millions on which it pays no taxes whatsoever. The Chive National of New York is reported to hold nearly eighty million. You know that individuals holding these securities would have to pay income taxes, Why do you not recommend a Taney for this discrimination? Your policy has made it more diffi- cult for industry to get money at reasonable rates than all the state and municipal bonds in existence. Banks do not hold many state and municipal bonds because they are not liquid enough but your issuing short time securities makes a very splen- did investment for these financial in- stitutions and manufaeturers who keep their reserve in them.” Dealing with Mellon’s claim that reduction in the rich man’s tax bur; den will reduce the cost of living, Couzens cites the unanimous opinion of conseryative economists to the effect that surtaxes on high ineomes and the excess profits tax are the hardest taxes to pass aleng. Ac- cording to Prof. T, §, Adams of Yale; “Taxes were responsible only in minor degree for the high cost of living. The cost of living went up before tax rates were increased, it stayed up when tax rates were reduced, and it will come down in the future whether tax rates be in- ceased or reduced.” During the seven years 1916 to 1922, Couzens shows, corporations averaged nearly $3,000,000,000 a year available for dividends and surplus, or more than 12 per eent.on all common and preferred stock out- standing in 1922, What I desire, he says, is that the government should obtain its share of these enormous profits. Why lose all this revenue from those well able to pay? And why, if no one is payigg these sur- taxes is there such a tremendous eampaign of propaganda to secure their reduction? Chicago Newspaper Seale. The union committee and the pub- lishers have agreed to the following scale for composing rooms of news- paper plants: Day men $58, night men $63; 74-hour day or night. The contract is for three years dating from last May but effective Feb, 11, 1924. Unless Typographical Union No. 16 fails to ratify at its next meeting, the negotiations which have dragged on for eight months are now successfully concluded, Amalgamation means strength! d higher rates than some | er FINANCIERS MEET TO SAVESKINS OF BUSTED BANKERS Fear Growing Revolt of Bankrupt Farmers A committee of financiers, railroad presidents and business men with the American government represent- | ed by Herbert Hooyer met here to save the bankers of the Northwest | from bankruptcy and to keep the} exploited farmers on the Coolidge | bandwagon until the next election is! over. | The assembled plutes announced | that $100,000,000 were available for | the relief of their fellow bankers, No time was wasted discussing the dire straits in which the farmers found themselve in; their troubles were of interest only because they had a direct connection with busted banks and bankrupt bankers. They Form Pool. Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- merce, and Eugene Meyer, head of the War Finance Corporation, were present at the meeting and pledged the support of the government in the administration of tite pool. If this pool is administered in the same highly efficient manner that the money appropriated for the disabled war veterans was handled by the republican administration, some of the farmers may come to the con- clusion that it is not a pool but a bottomless pit. It was announced at the meeting that $10,000,000 were immediately available for relief. The war finance corporation is good for ten times this amount. How strange that relief is so hard to secure when the workers or farm- ers are in need of assistance but, let a banker send up a signal of dis- tress and the government immedi- ately places the United States treas- ury at his disposal, Railroad Boss Farm Saviour! C, T. Jaffray, Minneapolis, presi- dent of the Soo” railroad, was elec- ted chairman of the board of direc- tors of the financing corporation which will start actual relief work within two or three weeks, it was announeed, Jaffray will establish headquarters for the organization in Minneapolis. The amounts pledged by. districts are; New York and, the eastern states, $5,000,000; Chicago, $2,000,- 000; the Twin Cities, $1,000,000; De- troit and Cleveland, $700,000 each, and Pittsburgh, $600,000, Members of the executive com- mittee of the corporation are: John MeHugh, New York; G. H. Prince, St. Paul; E. W. Decker, C, C, Web- ber, and P, J, Leeman, Minneapolis; Ralph Van Vechten, jeago; J. R. Howard, presid ¢ the lent 0’ American Farm Bureau Federation; Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railroad, and Charles Don- nelly, president of the Northern Pac- ific, Get unity thru the Labor Party! | Amalgamated Tells Workers Party Monday, February 18, 1924 of Steel Workers Fight Against Gunman Rule at Newport, Kentucky CLEVELAND, Ohio. Feb te Fhe Dally Worker) 17,—The District Executive Committee of the Workers Party here recently asked the Cen- tral Committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin {Workers of North America, which has been carrying |on the strike in the Newport Rolling Mills since July, 1921, | for information in reference to the situation, sending at the ‘same time a contribution to help the workers on strike, In reply to this communication the following letter giving the history of the brave strug was received from the Amal- amated’s Central Committee, istrict No. 6, at Newport, Kentucky: Workers Party of America, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sirs. and Brothers; In reply to your request of Feb. 4 inst., in which you ask for pub- licity, about the Newport strike situation, I wish to say that in order to give the brothers a thoro understanding of the situation in Newport it will be necessary to start from the beginning of the strike, and to which fam willing to add reports from time to time, as I get the news. This may help in keeping away from Newport, persons who go there to get em- ployment at the mills and steel plant. In July, 1921, the Andrews Steel Co. and the Newport Rolling Mills Co. decided to run the plants on the open shop plan, and refused to sign the scales of the Amalga- mated Association and the conse~ quence was, that about 2,300 mem- bers of the A. A. were left to choose between the two; either to stay loyal to the A. A. or become outcasts or scabs. The company, not being as suc- cessful as they thought they would be, hired a bunch of thugs and gunmen, and the consequence was that there was a lot of disorder and disruption in the city of Newport, Ky., and the wind-up of the affair was that the state militia was sent to Newport to preserve order, After the militia arrived they soon realized that their pres- ence was not required and after a short stay, the militia returned to their respective homes. It seems that this did not suit the rolling mil company, for no more than the militia left than dis- order again began to reign in Newport. The company at this time had about 65 armed guards and four machine gung stationed inside of their plant, and in Jan- uary, 1922, the state militia re- turned to Newport, accompanied by tanks that were used in France, also machine guns, under the com- mand of Colonel Denhart, who is now lieutenant governor of Ken- tucky. Shoot at Citizens; Insult Women, » The militia at once gave a tary demonstration, to show their strength. Citizens were shot at, ‘women insulted, and law abiding citizens were cast in the bull pens, (The bull pen was a sort of prison located inside the Newport Rolling Mills.) The militia began to raid le of the workers at Newport private homes and the saloons look- ing for moonshine and home brew. (Of course the striking steel workers got all the blame; they were the supposed cause of dis- order,) A reign of terror re- mained in Newport, as only coun- tries of Russia were used to see- ing. After about four months of military regime, the Hon. Governor Morrow, then governor of Ken- tucky, was finally persuaded to withdraw the troops frgm New- port and peace once mere began to reign, and I am pleased to say has remained so up to the present time. The Newport Rolling Mill and the Andrew Steel Company have had at least 5,000 men in their employ since the beginning of the strike, and have made no success, Negroes Quit, They have brought Negroes from the sunny South, promising them the land of Eden, but it hag been to the sorrow of the unfortunate Negro, for he soon saw his mis- take, He saw that the golden apple was only a gilded one and did not prove to be what it should ‘The result was that as soon as the Negro got enough together he started back South, Unfortu- nately there are a good many who can’t get enough together to pay their way bby 4 Because three of our brothers told a truek driver that there was a strike on in Newport, the fed- eral judge sentenced them to serve eight months in Winchester, Ky. prison. Thank God their time will soon be » as they only have about thirty days to serve. Traitors Canned, We have had about 100 of our brothers who deserted the ranks of the A. A. and became traitors to their fellow workmen, I am proud to say that only a few of these deserters remain at the mills, ds the company itself has no use for a traitor, ' i Hoping that this is what you want to know and intending to write from time to time as I re- iy _ © ficerely yours, GEO, H, L. , Gor, Rep. _ 817 Isabella ‘ewport, Ky. The Committee at Cleve- land will endeavor to arduse the workers in neighboring cities in Ohio to give support for the steel workers at Newport so that they will | ag to continue their splendi ight, WILMINGTON, DEL, IS SCENE OF THE LATEST SCARE Police Surely Had This Meeting Covered (Special te The Daily Worker) WILMINGTON, Del, ‘Feb. 17.— Italian workers, who want to hold meetings for the Sacco-Vanzetti De-, fense committee, are told to go to Massachusetts to hold them, by local police. That organizations like the the Sons of Italy are willing to co- operate with the radical Italians makes no difference to the police. “Reds ean’t hold no meetings in this town,” the police say, The fear the police have of radical meetings goes rather far here. A Catholic priest, Rev. John S. Glucy, phoned the police recently that a meeting of reds would take place in a certain hall. Superintendent of police Black ordered more than a score of police to report to him in plain clothes. When they reported he ordered them to go to the hall where the meeting was to takp place and scatter themselves in the audi- ence, The police were to arrest every- body in sight at a signal from the officer in charge, The brave police went to the hall. They scattered, They tried to look desperate, They waited for the sig- nal, The meeting opened. The Rev. George Allison, pastor of the Second Baptist church, spoke and a number of children from his Sun- day sehool sang, ‘This is slick work on the part of the bloody reds,” whispered the police. “We will give it to them when they show their colors,” Then the Rev. Mr. Allison gave a talk on “Italy, Its People, and Their Customs.” “The dirty bums,” sighed the police, “They are the slick ones, They think we will leave and then they will overthrow the government of the country, Leave Not us. We stay hére and project the gov- ernment, We stay if it is all night.” There were more songs by the Sun- day school children and then” the meeting closed. Feared There Was Mistake. The policeman in charge of the de- tail at the meeting thought there might be some mistake. ‘or all he knew the government was being over- thrown in another hall. Maybe the police were in the it ® lace, He spoke to the Rey. Mr. Allison, Allison cleared the whole thing up. The meeting was being held for the benefit of a Polish Baptist church and apparently the Catholic priest who had called the ice hoped to break up the meeting and so tect his flock from the ravages of hard- shelled Ba; After sending out a general alarm to all police stations to look out for red meetings and instructing them to protect and uphold the govern- ment of city, state and nation the police went back to headquarters to await developments. Government Aids Landlords Fight Tenants in War Over Homes (Continued from page 1) aiding and abetting the per- petuation of these deplorable hardships which the workers are today enduring. The gov- ernment is permitting the con- tinuation of the worst evils of the housing crisis. An exam- ination of the policy pursued by the government towards the workers and the capitalist landlords can yield only a seathing indictment of the gov- ernment’s inactivity in reliev- ing the misery of the workers and of the energy it displays in protecting the landlord class. Thousands of Tenement Houses TMe- gally Built. At the hearings of the New York State Housing Commission it was testified that there were at present at least 5,000 illegally constructed tenement houses. Tenement House Commissioner Mann confessed that he was helpless in permitting the landlord to convert these houses il- legally into tenements, He admitted that the people living in these build- ings were under a heavy fire haz- urd, Under present condita Com- missioner Mann declared: “Public officials must close one eye and some times beth.” He went on to give an ilustration of a tenement house in| wit Bath B h catching fire and taking of six persons, despite the violations had been pend- ie inst this fire trap for six months, the government did nothing to remove the defects. False Economy at Workers Expense. The government is pursuing a pol- fey of criminal false economy at the expense of the workers. In New York orders have been issued from the city hall prohibiting any increase in appropriations for the different departments, In this way the Tene- ment House Department had its budget cut to a minimum and has been crippled thru a lack of suffi- clent inspectors, Commissioner Mann told the Hous- ing Commission that there are to- day at least 35,000 violations pend- ing against landlords with 13,000 cancellations or compliances for the first half of the year (1928). It be a physical impossibility for the oe ineveces of he ‘enement partment to inspect every tenement house in the city even onee a year. The Commission agreed that there should be regular inspec- tion monthly if safety is to be con- sidered. But the government, appar- ently, is not concerned with the safety of the werkars foy it is ready to throw away millions in graft to corporations and their t while it is enforcing the minimum require- ment and budget on a department so vital to the lives of the mass of | people. This tragic state of affairs and menace the security of the work- ing masses wag emphasized by Cap- tain Ely in his testimony before the housing commission when he de- clared: “We have ample evidence of Commissioner Mann's neglect to perform his duty as required under the law. We called his case to the attention of acting Mayor Murray Hulbert two weeks ago when Mr. Hulbert assumed the duties of mayor but further than to merely acknow- | ledge receipt of our communica(*in, the acting mayor practically ignored our demand,” ; Government Permits Landlord Hold- ups. While the government is quick to enforce the contracts of the capital- ists for big profits, it,is doing noth- ing to help the workérs who are at the mercy of the landlords demand- ing large seeurities from them on renting houses. The effects of this practice, which is a direct outgrowth of the housing shortage, summed by a west land- is turned rapidly over to a dozen and one landlords, and ag the first landlord moves away, the tenant has no redress under the law but to go to the first landlird for the security, If t) cannot tind the original landlord, then they can- not find their security!” Under the law the landlord cannot enforce this security holdup game which, in effect, is a severe penalty on the tenant. Yet, the government permits these landlords to ‘ke vantage of the poor working man who does not know the law. Very often workers make no attempt even to take such cases to court and thus lose their security because they do not understand court procedure, Evidence presented to the Housing Commission shows conclusively that the government has done nothing to stop the landlords from obtaining in this manner large sums of money which were frequently lost to the tenant either thru the disappearance of the owner or thru the sale of the property. Of course, tho the govern- ment has always been ready to guar- antee a certain rate of interest or jprofit to the capitalists, it has not | done a thing in this case to compel ithe landlords to pay interest to the |tenants on these securities, — Allows Iron Clad Leases. Under the very eyes of government | officials the United Real Egtate Own- ers of New York City, an organiza- tion composed of about 11, real estate owners, has been violating every principle of contracts, the sanc- tity of which has always been preach- ed by our capitalist defenders of the constitution and for the enforcement of which the workers have often had to pay with their jobs, their homes and their very lives. Despite the enactment of the emer- gency rent laws the government has blinked at the fact that the provi- sions of the eleventh clause ‘of the “Iron-Clad Lease” is a complete ab- |rogatior of the tenant’s rights. Ac- jeording to this clause “a court deci- |sion fixing the amount of rental to ibe charged for the apartment is to be disregarded, providing the amount \of rent fixed by the court is than the amount reserved in the or the rent last paid if it exeeeds that amount.” Other burdensome require- ments include new penalties in the form of threatened rental increase if the tenant accepts a lodger, or if the tenant remains as a hold-over un- der the rent laws and the landlord obtains an offer of higher rent for the apartment. The State Housing Commission has frankly declared that “such terms are obviously intended to subvert the purpose for which the rent laws were enacted and must be accepted " it dence of the disposition of the lord to utilize the present emergency for the purpose of exacting the most oppressive and burdensome se- hold,” Since this conclusion o State investigators was made public not a single landlord has been com- pelled to stop breaking the laws of the State, Evictions Menace Thousands, One of the worst hardships from which the working men are suffering today is the power of summary ovic- tions by the courts. These summary Proceedings have permited landlords throw people into the streets, This has set up the landlord ela: a most favored group even a at the capitalists, for the butcher, fhe grocer, or the shoemaker does not have this right to interfere with the personal security of the debtor, harsh the courts have been to the working men under these proe | | } the | ceedings was told to the commission by Captain Ely in citing the follow- | went to the court, a check to the landlord, was at work she was notified over | the telephone that her things were on the sidewalk. She came back and | found part of her possessions there. | moved out and a padlock placed on! the door of her apartment. The woman sought entry thru the window on the fire escape. She then’ broke the padlock and moved her ey 4 back into the house. She told the marshal that a check for the land- lord was left on the chiffonier. Thereupon the marshal phoned the landlord who ordered her dispossess- ed at once. She then proceeded to sent a registered letter with a check te the landlord and told the judge about it. The letter was returned opened with the check not accepted. | et, the judge immediately mpnered | the workin; Munieipa! Levy summarized the extent of these eviction proceedings in the last four years as follows: ‘In 1919, in the five boroughs constituting the City of New York we had instituted 96,623 landlord and tenant proceed: ings. In 1920, which, I believe, was year in which the rent laws were Pi |, they went to 118,240, in spite of the rent laws, and in the succeed- ing year of 1921, after the rent laws were in effect for almost a year, they jumped to 125,656. So the tle- ment owning real estate in New York were not respectors of the rent laws.” Tn 1922 there were 85,826 eviction preentinns In the first half of 1923 \ there were 65,000 cases of this sort ‘on the ca ir. In one district court, the Seventh District Court of Judge Crain, these attempts of the ‘landlords to evict their tenants rose |from 9,779 in 1919 before the rent | laws were enacted to 19,941 in 1920, after the rent laws were passed, Government Saves Profiteers, woman dispossessed, Court Judge Aaron J. . were netting above this amount, Many landlords have seized upon While she eleven per cent profit and often where ‘ operating the property was heavily mortgaged, at rates as high as 40 to 60 per cent. The Federation of Tenants’ Asso- ciation of Greater New York pre- The neighbors had taken in her cloth- | sented data to the State Commission ,'tion away ing and told her that her things were | showing that in seven cases on Wash- | aside that portion of the jury's ver- ie ington Heights the landlords were garnering profits ranging anywhere from 128 to 349 per cent; in 40 cases at about 100 per cent, and in 200 eases from 7 to.29 per cent. While» the workers were being robbed of their food and the oppor- tunity to send their children to school, in order to meet these rentals, | the government was allowing the landlord class to continue to fleece the tenants in this cold-blooded fashion, The See racial Strong- In the housing crisis, like in all other difficulties in which the work- ing men find themselves under capi- talism, the courts are invariably on the side of the rich and against the oor, According to the Emer, ent Relief Laws the tenant 4 a lowed a trial by jury to defermine the reasonableness of the increase in rent. On Jan, 21st, 1924, Congressman Fiorello H. LaGuardia wrote a letter to Mr. Bernhard Shientag, chairman of the State Commission of Housing and Regional Planning, in which he cited hig experience with the high- handed conduct of the courts “vitiat- ing the very purpose of the law.’ int ORE pointed out as nm is case Invol twenty-six tenants iW the Bixth Dis- trict Municipal Court, against an in- erease in rent, the juday, at the end of the case, “instead vem the jury to decide whether rent was reasonal or ©@ sive, took that ausatian away from the jury and submitted three qui for the jury to decide, ins to bring in replies to the Hd specified ques- the figure of the assessed valuation, refusing to believe, of course, the ing typical case: A working woman | this decision to compel their tenants flimsy, groundlessifigures of the ex- She had mailed} to pay rentals at a rate of about! perts on valuation and also cut the expenses in accordance with the facts as they believed them, ‘seeing right thru the padded list of ‘the landlord, The court not satisfied i with taking the fundamental” ques- rom the jury, then set iting expenses and |Sulwiituted ather Agutes, With, the | instructions as given the jury, and j the setting aside of the figures un- satisfactory to the landlord, the one Lege Rosyrigietons at the jury an e ve! lof the Emergency Rent Hellet Law. ‘Thus the tenants were deprived in (ewer of the word a trial by We see that here as in every con- test raat the manent a thate explo courts lined up on the tide of toe prepares interests -the ec st je eX} a fot ah nol "The Court, in this instance, did not instruct the jury to fi it how much the work- jers were able to pay but propagan- dized the hi, ix a handsome profit for ndlord. Rent Laws No Remedy. The erge it Rel La were rey pe ae halt. hearted attempt to show an interest Redhoratts hewslen oodiione of sae be veh class, bo one Suite presented to the State: Housing Come seni 0 le Taission to show that since the enact- ment of these laws the rent situation have saun thet” avery woppoved ‘puts of relief in laws has oan strated by the landlords with the tacit or with the open aid of the gov~ ernment itself, iit These laws were enacted, to use | the words of the Housing Commis- Sion, “to avoid that whieh in tnew “absence would have been a calamity," of | the ted | number of Es Se Si eal tt ale aa, Tie Ble eS 0 Rit sd nF Commission that “The rent laws wete as much an advantage to the investor as they were to the tenant. It would have been absolutely impossible to collect the rents if they insisted go. ing ang in the rampant way they were raising rents, property changing hands from week to week, getting in the hands 4 new opera- tors and speculators, It would have created a condition that your Police Department and even your military could not take care of, because your Tawa were affecting your working Mr. Charles Brady, the Superin- tendent of Buildings in the Borough Manhattan, went so far as to tell Housing Commission that if it were not for the rent laws “we won't have enough marshals in the City of New York to put the tenants out,” Dr. Frank J. ca ce pony Health missioner, proved t ws were not to the disadvantage of the landlords by citing the small foreclosures of tenements sinee their enactment by the legisla- ture. Speaking for the extension of these ie worke! rom these inealoulable ‘ ng Lillie Grant of the Mayor’s Commit- * |tee, said: “If these laws are not ex- nied going to bloodshed right Nees ork Cit ere Ciot.” sairt es Sree carry- ing out the dictates of the capitalists and serving the la . A power- ful lobby is maintained by these {n- teronts to see that the legislators eas not go wrong on housing. Thus Captain Ely, of the Tenants’ regent Informed the sta inyens ators that he “was told one thi a ee been raised by real estate men to be it Al is wo | t trade og HS en iords, thru. the Real. catate Bon are also mal af yp effort to put all rent cases ii nds of a While the government was hell ions, The questions given to the \- ;the lemiociy a their. crue} Fea dury_ were substantially as follows: eh bi afl oh, nit ha ape: Rs cemosion mich wil sete oad ve of summarily evicting the poor ten-|1, What is the present income de- view in its statement thats | appointed tyler necerer, / 1 ante, it was, at the fame time doing | rived from the property? 2. t The situation extends a grave warn- "the facts of capitalist control of its best to guarantee the property |are the operating expenses of the ing to the whole ¢lass of New York | the mental in. the owners minimum ample pi and | property? 3, t is the valuation owners. Indirectly all owners |housing erisis are. as jerion ag in ail to aid and abet many landlords in|of the property? of private propert: muetibe condemn- | other instances where the sate ‘forcing the most exorbitant rents| “The case was the one sf the over @ cond which makes for |are subject to Srplogieg Wait anal: on the workers. typical landlord padding his bill of disrespect for existing so- | nation, In a case before Judge Spiegelborg | particulars with cto Be operating cial institutions and a dozen vactnilas The government doing nothing ithe latter ruled on the basis of an|costs and with the usual ex} = | of political radicalism.” for the working in the te fondo cae Mog ee sighs timony ES ve valaation ¢ Prop-) And ick J, Reyille, Superin- | hous! ‘The coment as i rou; a verdict stock a Hct at Invenments a the tine Ang the value ofthe property: at | enue Boltigs ousing the idan hes nine 41