80,000 Rendered Idle by Closure of Factories: Weaning Workers from the Kuomintang Canton (despatched from Hongkong) Apr. 18.
Eleven labour, unions concerned! in the work of making" articles considered as Iyguries, involving at Jo £80,000 persons, have been' ronde tale in Canton city by the decision of the factories and shops to close down temporarily as a protest epainst the recently mandated: tax on micro than 50 classes of goods deluded in the luxury There' was no necessity for the closing down of the industries concerned, but the owners are doing' this to enlist the support of the workers in their opposition to the new tax. Whereas the workers! urnally support the Kuomintang, in the present issue the idle workers: are forced to join the shop owners: in their protest against the new tax.
Kerosene oil in Canton still is obtainable, notwithstanding—the stoppage of distribution by the! Standard Oil Company and the Asiatic Petroleum Company, who fave supporting the Chinese retailers in suspending business as a protest against the war tax imposed on this trade by the Commissariat of once of the Kuomintang in Cane The price, however, is high.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.