Eliot, Nichols Are New Speakers at AVC Rent Control Rally Tuesday

Philip M. Nichols, chairman of the Massachusetts State Housing Board and father of much of the Bay State's housing legislation, has been added to the list of speakers for Tuesday's mass rent control rally sponsored by the Harvard and Cambridge chapters of the American Veterans Committee. Slated for 8 o'clock at Rindge Hall, two blocks from Memorial Hall, on Broadway, the meeting's agenda will also include Tom Eliot '28, former Congressman, and others previously announced.

Rally chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 struck out last night at the claim of the National Association of Real Estate Boards that tenants would accept a 15 percent increase if they received a year's lease, declaring that "the hardships which such an increase would work on untold numbers of citizens, especially home-hungry veterans, and the blow that lifting of controls would deal to the entire veterans housing program are of such magnitude as to demand immediate response from everyone. This response must be clearly evident Tuesday night at Rindge Hall."