Bronx Tenants Win Great Victory
Bronx Tenants Win Great Victory Lead Sholem Aleichem TenantH in Battle ainsi I andlordism; A Clean-cut Victory for Which Parly Wins Credit; Celebrate at Bamjiict f J N K of the, most significant...
...of the Bronx Free J|ellowship, Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, near East 172nd St...
...and Ministers without portfolio, Thorstcln Karl Viktor Nothin, former Minister of Justice, and Professor Unden, of Upsala University...
...Laidler...
...These and many other facts are to be gleaned from the very full report submitted to the 13th Conference of the Party, held in Madrid on October 6th and the following days...
...But we have tried regulation and it has utterly failed...
...Kdvin Skold, Minister of Agriculture...
...The election, theejgh unimportant in itself, is considered a weather-vane that shows which way the wind may blow when the new Reichstag elections are held November 6th A. Baroff Dies The Labor and Socialist movement has suffered a gseat loss in the death of Abraham Baroff, for many years Secretary-Treasurer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...When the strike started six weeks ago, the landlords flatly refused to have any dealings with the Tenants' Committee, headed by Samuel Laderman, a member of the SIM mini Party...
...t—Two and one-half per cent further reduction of all rents, this money to be set aside as an unemployment relief fund...
...Harry W. Laidler, Socialist candidate for Congress in the 6th District, Broklyn, at Public School, 167, Schenectady Avenue and Eastern Parkway...
...The mortgage was represented by Williams, Ritchings, the president of a mortgage company subsidiary...
...In the alien field the existing committees are not all-inclusive enough to handle the issues of lawless raids and the legislation in Congress directed particularly against alien radicals...
...The Agreement The agreement was reached at a conference in the offices of H. P. Williams, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Che New York Title and Mortgage Company...
...Hoover favor better regulation of power and other public utilities...
...Fritz Gustavus Moller, the party's secretary and former Minister of Social Welfare, in his old post...
...They won at the start, when they pledged themselves never to give in to the landlord and never to split...
...6—Complete renovation of such social rooms at the landlord's expense...
...The old slogan of 'rent, interest and profit' has in some measure given way to the new slogan 'Repeal Unemployment...
...Campaign Against Third Degree and Alien Raids Formation of two special national campaign committees, one against the use of the third degree by the police and the other against lawless raids on aliens and deportation for opinion as well as antialien legislation, in Congress, was agreed on last week by the Board of Directors of the Civil Liberties Union...
...5—No rent to be charged for the social rooms used by the tenants...
...It is the first time In the history of this country in which a rent etrike...
...Pickets patrolled the streets every day...
...Celebrate at Bamjiict f J N K of the, most significant victories in the history of class conscious radicalism in America was won last week in the triumph of the 2\2 rent striking tenants of the Sholom Aleichem A p a r t m e n t s 3451 Giles Place, Bronx, with the aid of the Bronx Tenants' Emergency League of the Socialist Party...
...The most heartening thing about the election is the substantial Socialist gain...
...The ministry includes several party editors, two party secretaries and several trade union officials among the members...
...Clarence V. Howell's topic at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting...
...But the tenants remained grim, determined and reI cm i t s * in the pursuit of their ob ject...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt is today posing as America's great liberal," declared Dr...
...Today Franklin D. Roosevelt categorically declares his conviction that, 'as a broad general rule the development of utilities should remain, with certain exceptions, a function of private initiative and private capital.' "As an eminent journalist recently said, Roosevelt's speech on public utilities was so mild that 'Roosevelt emerges as not such a bad bet for the power companies.' "Mr...
...The principles for which this strike was fought are an example and an inspiration to tenants throughout the city," Matthew Levy said...
...9—Discontinuance of all suits and vacating of all dispossess and eviction orders...
...The trouble is that, under regulation the regulated corporations usually regulate the regulators...
...The Hitlerites lost over half their votes since July, I hi' Socialists gained 35 per cent and the non-Nazi reactionary parties regained the votes that had previously gone to Hitler...
...8—Past due rents to be paid by the tenants at stipulated intervals to November IB, 1932...
...In Pasadena, Tacoma, Seattle, Springfield, 111., and other cities the charge is far less than that of privately owned plants...
...The landlord reacted to this display of solidarity so violently that he could not bear to come to his own houses...
...Ivan Verniers) nun, party editor, Minister of Defense...
...2—Five per cent reduction in rent for all tenants...
...Repeal Unemployment...
...With 104 Socialist members of the Riksdag, t > 68 for the next largest party, and with the support of 8 Communist members the Hansson cabinet will have four votes short of a clear majority, but little difficulty is anticipated in securing many more than four supporters among radical and left-wing liberal members of other parties for the program announced by the new premier...
...Premier Hansson announced a policy that included a striving for free trade, rigorous restriction and reduction of armaments, unemployment insurance and better old age pensions...
...The recognition of the principle of direct negotiation between the landlord and organized tenants is the point over which we are most elated, "Samuel Laderman delta red...
...or the hrst time the owners of property—in this case the powerful New York Title and Mortgage Company- were forced to share responsibility for the unemployed occupying their realty and to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively as tenants for lower rents and better housing conditions...
...Arthur Kngbcrg, Minister of Education...
...A Significant Straw What is generally conceded to be a significant straw indicating the early deflatior of the Hitler movement in Germany is the result of an election in Rodensleben, near Magdeburg, in which the Nazis received a setback...
...Bronx Tenants Win Great Victory Lead Sholem Aleichem TenantH in Battle ainsi I andlordism...
...The services of the League, of Panken A Levy, Murray Cross, Alfred Belskin, Sol Perrin and Herman Saltzman were commended in unanimous resolutions of thanks passed by the tenants...
...In other words, the membership has been more than trebled since the fall of the monarch) in April 1931...
...In Los Angeles, under public ownership of electricity, the average charge is 2,73 cents per kilowatt hour...
...The tenants are enthusiastic about this settlement...
...This report, a volume of 22« closely printed pages, is a volume apart, for it not only contains all the features usual to a conference report but also invaluable historical material relating to the position of the Party before and since the establishment of the Republic...
...Catherine, a vice-president of the mortgage company, and Joseph G. Engelj attorney for the company...
...A United Front After being faced with I his unbeatable united front for five weeks, the landlord capitulated and made the settlement with the Tenants Committee which represented all the tenants...
...He also announced plans for the Improvement of agriculture...
...This strike has shown that nothing can stop organized workers...
...The tenants were represented by the Tenants' Committee consisting of Samuel Laderman, Chairman, and Morris Sherman, Max Goodfriend, Sol Grossman and Abraham Sternthal, by former Municipal Court Judge Jacob Panken and, Anally, by Matthew M. Levy, whose successful fight in the courts to prevent evictions made the landlord and his lawyers wild with anger and made the tenants wild with Joy...
...Ernest Vigfrosi, Minister o.' Finance...
...Many attempts at organized efforts against the third degree have been made, but no organization has yet really Campaigned against it...
...The cabinet includes Kickard J. Sandler, former Socialist premier, Foreign Minister...
...Report on Work of Span ish Socialist Party Since 1928 The Spanish Socialist party now has a membership of over 75,000...
...The Civil Liberties Union will seek to enlist all organizations who have expressed their opposition...
...Judge Panken said after the agreement was reached, "This is pioneering work which the tenants have been carrying on and they may well be proud of the results...
...will be Rev...
...No heads were smashed, no furniture was broken and there were no hysterics or futile battles with police...
...Delegations of Socialists will be sent to Albany when the Legislature meets to prevent the passsge of laws against the tenants' interests and to put forward positive legislation for the betterment of housing conditions...
...Although he was ready to make concessions to the tenants as individuals, they, in turn, refused to negotiate with him except through their co-operative organization...
...In addition to the ten per cent reduction granted a short time ago when the strike was first threatened...
...He lining Leo, another member of the party secretariat, M i n i s t e r of Communications...
...Judge Karly Schlyter, Minister of Justice...
...Landlord., were made to recognize the rights of tenants to the advantages of collective bargaining...
...Roosevelt and likewise Mr...
...Laidler challenged his Democratic opponent, Congressman Somers, to state his position on public ownership...
...The promptness and efficiency with which the Bronx* Tenants Emergency League, consisting of Socialist comrades in the Bronx, took control of the situation has received a great deal of favorable comment...
...In the state of Pennsylvania, in 1929, under regulation, 0 companies earned from 28 per cent to 70 per cent profit on their own valuations...
...Radicalism and Religion" "How Mix Radicalism and Religion...
...4 —A month's concession to all tenants...
...During the strike, all windows in the houses contained placards reading, "UNEMPLOYED EVICTED- TENANTS ON STRIKE...
...7—All needed repairs and renovations in the apartments to bo made by the landlord promptly...
...We have shown working people all over the city that organized tenants, like organized la bor, can he recognized by capital...
...This Saturday night a Victory Banquet will be held by the tenants in their cooperative dining room...
...In 1928, more than 60 per cent of the companies reporting to the Public Service Commission were making more than 9 per rent on their capital, while 40 per cent were receiving more than 12 per cent...
...All concerned with the strike will be present...
...has been conducted for the principle of forcing the landlord to share in the burdens of the unemployed tenants who cannot pay their rent...
...10—Establishment of a Board of Mediation to resolve any disputes concerning arrears and the necessity of repairs...
...Baroff, who was 62, died Tuesday in a hospital at Torrington, Conn Abraham Baroff was for many years right hand man to the late Murray Gross, Secretary of the League and Bronx County Organizer of the Socialist Party, said that the fight against landlordism in the Bronx would go on unabated...
...On the Pacific Coast he delivered a speech on public utilities...
...In Ontario, under public ownership of the hydro-electric plants, the transmission lines and the distribution system, the housewives pay less than 2 cents per kilowatt hour for their electric lights as compared with three times that amount in the cities of New York State...
...Contrast regulation with public ownership...
...These committees," says the Union, "will meet a growing need...
...Thirty years ago those who boasted of liberal tendencies advocated public ownership of public utilities...
...In addition to setting of this important precedent, the following material gains were won by the tenants: 1—Immediate reinstatement of the four evicted tenants -to the apartments occupied by them, at the expense of the landlord...
...Laidler Flays Roosevelt For Stand on Utilities A vigorous attack on Franklin D. Roosevelt's position on public utilities and a strong plea for public ownership as opposed to regulation of electrical and other services were made Monday night by Dr...
...Solidarity Prevails The whole strike was characterized by extraordinary solidarity on the part of the tenants The smashing victory of the tenants was a complete vindication of Socialist methods...
...SWEDISH SOCIALIST CABINET ANNOUNCES WELFARE rHOGMri Per Albin Hansson, leader of the Socialist movement of Sweden since the death of Hjalmar Branting, has completed an all-Socialist ministry, with himself as Premier, following the Socialist victory at the recent elections...
...Fridjof Hitman, head of the ironworkers' union, Minister of Commerce...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 14
