LABOR: Tenants' Revolution

The swank side of Manhattan's Central Park is Fifth Avenue on the east, where expensive apartments house Al Smith, many another who can pay for the privilege of looking out on some of the city's few trees. But the west side of the park, which has a similar view, is no slum. It, too, has fine buildings in which the annual rent of an apartment is as much as the cost of building a modest home. Such a building is the San Remo, whose services employes struck three months ago.

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