Show RENTS LOWERED FOR TENEMENT PEOPLE V E YORK Jan 1 The I-The The systematic ic campaign for lower rents by thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of tenants on the lower east cast side bc began an to show material results today whoa when man many landlords announced that they were ready to mako make reductions Somo Seine of tho the landlords are offering offer offer- offering in ing compromise compromiso propositions but in inthe tho the main the tenants arc are holding out for fora a material reduction The rapidly in creasing numbers of men an and women out of work is an added argument which the tenants arc advocating ad for a 3 new rent scale scalo Tho The United Hebrew V Charities' Charities association association- has announced that it would send out today to aid in a measure the tho arm army of unemployed pe people le to pa ay their rents The work of or organizing tho the tenements goes oes ly on It was stated at atthe tho the headquarters of the tenants' tenants organization or or- today that 1300 bi big tenement houses louses houses had already organized to demand lower lo rents when tho the rent collectors call call all tomorrow As there thero are aro from twenty ven t ty tv y to thirty families to n a tenement and tf fire ive e persons on an n average to a family it t means that tho landlords already ha havo o over o.-er people to contend with Sev- Sev oral labor or organizations have havo indicated their heir intention of aiding tho tenants Jt It t is generally agreed by br the tenement organizations that when whon tenants are evicted for refusing to pay the old rent reut scale tho thoy will Trill be sheltered by tenants in n tho same house The rho tenants demand lomand de lo- mand reductions of 2 a month There Thero were several mass meetings of tenants tonight to discuss tho the situation The Thc police do not apprehend that any riots or disorders will wll arise from tho rent The strike strite has been con conducted conducted ducted so 50 far with a particular quietude |