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...with professional actors for the role of Thomas à Becket, Hoellering attended hundreds of church services, Catholic and Anglican, searching for "a man who looked the part, inside as well as out." In London's down-at-heel East End, he found him: the Rev. St. John B. Groser, Anglican Dean of Stepney. Father Groser was horrified at first at the idea of turning actor, but he soon grew enthusiastic enough to spend seven months growing a 12th-Century-style head of hair...
...More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated to just demands. Those who refuse, we are forced to fight-and we haven't lost a case...
Leaders of the local defense leagues are spunky housewives, energetic Communists, clergymen with social consciences like Father Groser. Fortnight ago on the 100th anniversary of the great working class Chartist Convention that scared early Victorians silly by demanding such reforms as universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, representatives of the 200,000 members of the booming Federation of Tenants' and Residents' Associations met for its first national convention. Birmingham, scene of a recent victorious strike by 46,000 families living in a municipal tenements, was the convention city...
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