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Show TENANTS TO STRIKE AGAINST RENT RAISE NEW YORK. Dec. 31. A strike of tenants ten-ants against an increase of Si a month in rent of 2orj apartment and tenement bouses in the Bronx wa s begun today. Heads of 300 families signed a declaration declara-tion that they would stand together and suffer eviction rather than pay the increase, in-crease, which becomes effective tomorrow". tomor-row". A plan was formulated whereby families fam-ilies will take refuse in the homes of friends if dispossession proceedings are instituted by landlords, and a fund was started to meet the expense of legal proceedings. pro-ceedings. The women who attended the meeting were urged to constitute t !ipitip-!vpe pickets to warn prospective tenants aains; renting an apartment from w'ui';h one of their number had been evicted. f |