Coventry Paper Refuses Tenants' Advert

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4 quarter-page advert, headed "Withold the rent increase!" submitted by the secretary of the Coventry tenants' federation has been refused by the advertising manager of the Coventry Evening Telegraph. Apart from the advert heading, the message thanked the tenants who had "refused to pay the vicious 50 per cent rent increase" in the first week it came into operation. It continues: "Their action, along with that of thousands of Walsall and Sheffield tenants, shows tha determination of council tenants to win the just fight against extortionate rents and is an example to all other tenants not yet .witholding the increase. Having secured an excellent response to our campaign in the first week of the increases, we now all on other tenants for their suport. Already more Coventry tenants are refusing to pay the increase than did so in Walsall in the corresponding week of their massive struggle. No threat of the council will divert the tenants' movement from the pursuit of its aim; the complete Withdrawal of the rent increases." The message is then signed by leaders from eight different tenants' associations throughout the city. Mr. Jim Suddick, chairman of the tenants' federation, said that a formal complaint to the Press Council would be made.