SQUATTER MOVEMENT IN CALCUTTA
ACTION BY HOMELESS TRAMWAYMEN
CALCUTTA, September 22. Twenty-five tramwaymen who are homeless because of the riots introduced the squatter movement to Calcutta. For their new home they chose the unoccupied part of a house belonging to a tramway official. They are among 1500 tramwaymen whose houses were destroyed, burned, or abandoned because of danger during the riots.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24988, 24 September 1946, Page 7
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