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Show uo ; SECRET UNION OF TENANTS IS FORMED j , NEW YORK, April 24. Twenty j thousand tenants in the Bronx have 1 organized a secret union for the pur- J g pose of fostering a movement to refusa j to pay rents, fair or unfair, after May 1 t 1, Arthur J. Hilly, chairman of the H mayor's committee on rent profiteer , lng, said ho was informed today by ) ' central office detectives. The move j ment, he added, Is-fostered by radlcaj agitators. " j In the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, also, Mr. Hilly said, the reports , indicate, that 25,000 tenants will , "strike" at tho same time. Tho mayor's ma-yor's committee has been informed , that a fund of 50,000 is being raised for' "legal expenses" lie said. Reports : j of sabotage on the part of tenants , have also been received by the com- 1 mlttee, according to Mr. Hilly. ' i |