Will Not Pay Bobbed Hair Tax
(Special Cable to the New York Times and Montreal Gazette.)
Geneva, . — The authorities of the little Canton of Uri had a long and grave discussion at Altdorf concerning the law voted a year ago taxing women’s bobbed hair at 12 cents per head.
One deputy declared that the tax had given little financial results, as the women refused to pay the tax, which should be suppressed. Meantime indignant women, especially the young ones, refuse either to grow tresses or to pay the toll tax.
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Switzerland → bobbed hair tax of 1929
