Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-13 | Page 1 | Baby Ban Partially Busted in Oakland Apartment Houses

BABY BAN PARTIALLY BUST BUSTED ED IN N OAKLAND I I APARTMENT HOUSES l I r i c n i T if i S 4 t. t fj I Ii I s E a j L 1 w a 1 IT AKLAND c Cal 1 Oct J The The O OAKLAND Apartment Tenants' Tenants Defense association of Oakland has scored its first great vic vic- tory Babies are to tor tobe be admitted under certain restrictions to to Oaklands Oakland's largest apartment houses The inhuman ban against infant humanity is weakening at last Under leadership of local attorneys attorneys attorneys and club women living in apartment houses lately formed an organization to combat the extortionate rent profiteering Rents haven't dropped dropped yet Legal Legal Le Le- Le- Le gal action is planned by the tenants tenants tenants' ten- ten ants Cants union I As a concession certain leading owners of apartment houses have announced the installation of Baby Row Baby Row flow is a segregated district district dis dis- a special floor or wing in which persons unfortunate enough to own babies will be permitted permitted per per- mitt d to live for live for a consideration Baby Row flow is modeled on the plan of the famous Sleepy Sixteenth Sixteenth Sixteenth Six Six- in a New York apartment house where night workers lived and nd where nobody was allowed to stir or speak before 11 a. a m. m Instead of the Sleepy Sixteenth It will bethe be the Noisy Ninth the Squalling Sixth or the Echoing Eighth So the tenants are partly molli molli- fied But Dut they still plan to go after prof profi profiteering i leering