Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Now York's Rent Crusade. [ARTICLE]

Now York's Rent Crusade.

The organised movement among th* tenement dwellers of the lowef East Sid* of New York City to -force from landlords a lower scale of rents has taken on ♦ mammoth proportions, the estimated number of participant* varying from .**>,ooo to 70,000. Local socialists are prominent in the leadership and many meetings have