The tenants believed that Delgadillo was the white knight who would step in and save them from evictions. |
Direct action casework has brought victories in winning social benefits, fighting evictions, stopping deportations and winning back pay. |
The group also retained an attorney and filed two lawsuits challenging the evictions in the two counties. |
Shortages for low-income Torontonians were once again rampant, rents were spiraling and evictions were increasing. |
The Irish Land League of 1879 renewed the campaign, organizing rent strikes and boycotts and resisting evictions. |
Many of these islanders ended up on the eastern seaboard of Canada, either voluntarily or by forced evictions. |