"The yam-dyeing industry, Provides work for many hundred thousand men and women in ville ages and towns west of Canton City, particularly those around Yanipo along the Canton-Samshui railroad, cannot be resumed this spring of 1925, because of the refusal of the Yunnanese troops who occupy the territory to withdraw heir war tax on the products.
ram-dyed cloth woven by natives is very popular and much used by the farming and the coolie class. In Tate years, the import of foreign cloth has made this native product less popular, and further taxation with frequent demands on the part of the labourers for higher wages has prohibited the development of this once flourishing Cantonese industry near Canton. Until the return of normal conditions, some owners of factories devoted to this industry have thought it best to stop operations for the time being.
The Kuangtung Electricity Supply Company of Canton City, with but a week's supply of lubricating oil left for its plant, which is due to the closing of the distributing centre for this article in connexion with the present protest against the stamp tax on kerosene oil, may have to suspend operations also, it feared. Latest reports, however, appear to be hopeful thay the Commissariat of Finance of the Kuomintang in Canton will abolish the stamp tax, which the American and Jother consular representatives have termed a double tax on foreign imports contrary to treaty provisions. The Standard Oil Company of New York and the Asiatic Petroleum Company agencies in Canton have stopped distributing oils to their depots since April 2 in order to Jassist the Chinese retailers in op-Posing the new imposts,
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