Document Record

Title

Chinese Times : [1920-01-22]
大漢公報 : [一九二零年一月二十二日]

Published

Vancouver, British Columbia : Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd., 1920

Identifier

sfu.00001_19200122
00001_19200122

Subject

Chinese Canadians--Newspapers
Chinese--Newspapers
Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
Chinese--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
British Columbia--Newspapers
Vancouver (B.C.)--Newspapers
華裔加拿大人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
華人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
中國--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
加拿大--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
不列顛哥倫比亞--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
溫哥華 (不列顛哥倫比亞)-- 歷史--二十世紀--報紙

Document source

University of British Columbia Library

Collection

Newspapers
Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers

Language

Chinese

Description

January 22 p.3 1) The Chinese hawkers issues were discussed in Treasury Cttee on Jan. 21. represented 150 Chinese retail merchants/hawkers. He said that Chinese hawkers had a single association uniting them over the past 20 years, and recently they had eventually united for a general strike to protest the heavy taxation. He claimed that if the City Council insisted on the amount, the price of the goods would increase and then it would affect the general customers. He also said the retail merchants were against the Chinese hawkers because the Chinese offer a lower price. He thus hoped that the Cttee would reduce the Tax. An alderman suggested that all retail merchants and hawkers had to pay $50 because the hawkers could cover a city wide selling territory, thus they could make good profits, where the store owners had to pay more on other facilities. As a result, the Treasury Cttee insisted on $50 license tax. It was reported tha t the strongest oponents against the hawkers were retail merchants United Association which demanded that the tax should be $100. 2) Mare than 2000 shantung workers were on board the CPOS back to China. 3) King Fung Co. 537 Carrall St. had been established in Van. for quite a few years and recently, it cooperated with Chong Wan Co. in Hong Kong for better communi- cation. Mail and money orders could be sent through the King Fung Co. for more efficient service.

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