The Omaha Guide

TENANTS OF ENTIRE HARLEM HOUSE EVICTED

Mothers and Babies Put Out on Street: Workers Must Fight Mass Eviction

NEW YORK-(CNA)—The tenants of the entire building at 272 West 128th Street were thrown on the streets last Monday in a wholesale eviction move which is gaining headway in Harlem as the result of the cutting off of rent payment by the relief bureaus. Late into the night, desperate families, many of them with children in their arms, were congregated on the steps and sidewalks until taken in temporarily by other families.

Henchmen of the landlord attempted to stop the taking of photographs by members of the Liberator staff, who met this move by personal interviews with the dispossessed tenants and other workers, rallying them to the defense of the Lib photographer.

A meeting was subsequently held by members of the Harlem Unemployed council, who called upon the workers to resist the growing evictions.

On the following day, Tuesday, another case of eviction was reported to the Liberator, this time at 227 West 129th Street, where the furniture of Mrs. Parrish, mother of two young children, was thrown on the sidewalk during her absence from the house.

Harlem tenants are increasingly offering resistance to the mass evictions, high rents and unsanitary conditions as demonstrated in the rent strike of the tenants of 128 East 111th Street. Tenants should seek to organize anti-Eviction Committees in their houses and should get in touch with the Harlem Unemployed Council, which is carrying on a militant struggle against evictions, and in many cases has succeeded in returning the furniture of evicted workers to their homes.