| Show TENEMENT RENTS INCREASED Scores of Meetings s held Heia In New York to Protest New York April 4 Scores of ot Indignation lion tion meetings have 1110 been teen held In the tho east cost eastside side sHo In protect pretest against a n general Increase of or tenement rentals Lawyers and ani bail buil nUll noes men addressed the tho meetings and Mi n a protest was drawn up lip which will bo pre presented to tl tho the mayor Advances have been icen made nudo by b lease lellO hold hald haldore holders hr tI tIus ore ers In the tha crowded portion south of ot Kiev acv nth street from the flowery Dowery to Hast river Tho The raises range from 12 2 to 10 10 a n month Most of or the tenement dwellers are arc too poor to pay Py tho the Increase e and de do denounce nonce U it 1 as na extortion some Somo already have hao beta ben be n thrown on all the tho streets Easter Easier day the tho streets were pro with people discussing their till All 11 were agreed on ono one point to 10 resist to the utmost and ond refuse to tJ pay the Increase An All rd r l 1 society noddy has his been formal farmed to take lake car of or those thORO who may ba be dispossessed and ore aro unable to take care en re or ot themselves It In is declared the th lease lenso holders holder and not the Ille landlords have caused the advances advanced The former the buildings by bytho bythe tho year and collect the th rents from tram thORO to whom they sublet Numerous threats of 0 violence already Iwo have been heard hoard |
