Sept. 11.
The several tens of restaurant boats, so extensively patronized during these hbt_ months, have Joined the tea-flouses, refusing flatly to serve meals until" the altercation with the tax office has been settled. Although foreign-style restaurants which are attache to hotels are carrying on as wx those which have no such connection are also laying eff from work.
'A checking-ap of the middle-class tea-houses, the only Chinese-style restaurants in -the city which are Involved in this strike, discloses that a few have not responded to: the call of the leaders. "Due to the arrest of the higher-ups, who have. since been released, Nan Yuan, Min Yuan and Wa Shang, the three most popular eating palaces, have had to resume business.
"To "persuade" the houses that are holding out, siding with the tax collector, the strikers have orgattized a picket corps. Groups of pickets will drop into a restaurant Xefore the rush hour, each man will take a separate table, only cup of tea will be ordered per person, and they will hold on to their tables and refuse to take more than tea, and thus crowds will red away, and profits will go But the government will fa thing or two to say about: this procedure, and has declared it will not endure it, Governer Chen Ming-shu promised to have the tax que thrashed out at the Political Council meeting, but the Council has failed to act. Since then, the restaurant owners have come forward with a different. proposal than any advanced before. They have tendered $717,- 000 as an anneal tax, to be paid direct into the Treasury, cutting cut, the middleman, the tax gatherer. Since this is much more than the government "will realize so long as the money is taken in by concessionaire, the "for sounds good to some of the officials, and careful consideration will assuredly be given to the proposal.
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