Rent Strikes in Bronx

Landlords in bronk's park east asked a blue ribbon committee of bronk's jewish leaders to arbitrate the dispute. Strike leader max cambewits declared, the landlords didn't offer to share their profits with us. Now that we haven't got it, the landlords must be satisfied with less. By the second week of february 19 32, two major organizations of bronx' landlords had formed rent strike commit s That offered unlimited funding and legal support for any landlord facing a communist lead rent strike. Using considerable political influence and legal expertise at their disposal, they developed a strategy that included wholesale issuance of dispossessed notices against striking tenants.