Freeze Rents
Socialist Press1981 1981-02-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Coventry Labour Council's imposition of a £2.50 a week council house rent increase has led to a sharp growth in the number of tenants organisations in the city.
As we go to press well over 1,000 tenants are set to withhold the increase which comes into effect from February 6 and is to be followed by furthed DAMOHOT November.
Last Thursday angry tenants joined students and staff from Lanchester Polytechnic (facing a £1.1 million cut in expenditure in a lively demonstration outside the Council House.
Les Bennett, Campaigns Officer for the Coventry Tenants Federation told Socialist Press:
"Tenants groups are springing up all over the city. So far there are 24 and we are getting new enquiries all the time. We are confident that our ' next freeze will involve more and more tenanîs and that we have the council worried."
Some 400 tenants and Polytechnic staff and students marched round the city centre before returning to the Council House.
With meeting poised to impose massive round of cut: : there will be plenty of opport inities for further examples of jo int action.
The decision of a growing number of tenants to take direct action has pointed in the right direction. • Les Bennett drew attention to the widespread support for the tenants amongst rank and file Labour Party members. Support for and involvement in direct action against the cuts will be the crucial dividing line within Coventry Labour Party.
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