MILLIONAIRES ON STRIKE.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 May 1919, Page 5

MILLIONAIRES ON STRIKE.

Tenants in fashionable riverside drive apartment houses have joined in a revolt against the landlords, who ar e raising rents 40 to 70 per cent. {The new leases become effective on April 1. The rents hitherto paid range from £4OO to £IOOO a year (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Express).

The tenants announce thai they intend to carry the matter into court on the ground that it is against public policy to permit landlords to extract such enormous rentals as compel the tenants either to go into the streets or curtail their purchases of the necessities of life.

Among the residents in the apart- j mont houses where anti-landlord strikes arc being organised are Professor J Sehuler, of the Department of History, | Columbia University; Mr George Nash, the well-known actor; Mr "Frank RuS- J sek, a millionaire furrier: Mr Theodore] Kiendl. a leading lawyer; and others j of similar positions.