The lower East Side has its own youth movement. For the first time slum children are organized, along with their mothers and fathers, to work toward the one thing most vital to them all-the abolition of old-law tenements and firetraps.
The growth of this movement among tenement children will be demonstrated to New York all week beginning this afternoon when boys and girls will march in the parade preceding the open air rally at Seward Park which inaugurates Better Housing Week.
Thousands of youngsters will take part in the events, sponsored by the Lower East Side Housing Conference with the cooperation of the Welfare Council’s Housing Section.
Aroused by the tragedies of tenement fires last February and March when twenty-two people, many of them children, were burned to death, the young people of the East Side have joined their parents in calling meetings of protest, and it was from these meetings that the movement has grown
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