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f FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1958

Upward of 1,000,000 Canadians are expected to be unemployed this winter — and more

than one-tenth of them will be in this province. That’s the grim prediction being made publicly
by labor leaders. And it is shared, although not so publicly, by many business heads and

government officials.

In face of this national crisis,
one which will touch a major-
ity of workers’ and farmers’
homes in coming months,
neither the Diefenbaker gov-
ernment federally nor the Ben-
nett government provincially
has any announced plans for
coping with it. Both govern-
ments are as evasive and re-
luctant to act as they were last
year. And this year unemploy-
ment will be greater, bringing
hardship into thousands. of
Canadian homes.

Federal Labor Minister
Michael Starr, speaking ‘at a
Labor Day luncheon at the
Canadian National Exhibition
in Toronto, echoed this reluc-

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en? Strike in the hope of imposing compulsory arbitration upon the International Long-
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Continued on page 6
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tance to face the problem when
he held expansion of the
country’s labor force to be the
largest single factor in “recent
unemployment.” The obliga-
tion of the free enterprise

system, he asserted, was to ex-
pand the economy “in a way
that will definitely guarantee
more and more jobs.”
Continued on back page
See JOBLESS

LITTLE
QUEMO

ISLANDS
of

This map shows how Quemoy dominates Amoy Harbor.
From the Tan Islands (1) and Little Quemoy (2), Chiang
Kai-shek’s  U.S.-armed ‘and Supported forces can harass
shipping and conduct murderous forays against the Chinese
mainland. The U.S. would not tolerate such a situation
within its own waters. Why should China?

U.S. VIOLATES OWN PLEDGES

China has 1,000-year claim to Taiwan

On a clear day looking sea-
ward from the coast of Fukien
province one can discern dim
lines of a distant mountain
range.

The range stretches almost
236 miles from north to south;
it has 62 peaks which tower
9,000 feet or higher, and one
reaches 12,950 feet above sea
level. Its total area is 13,429
square miles (about two-
thirds the size of Vancouver
Island). :

Such is the majestic skyline

of Taiwan (Formosa) = the
largest island and the small-
est province of China. ;

It was the breath - taking
landscape and luxuriant vege-
tation of Taiwan which caused
Portuguese navigators, who
sighted it in 1590 to name it

Ilha Formosa, which means
Beautiful Island.

Besides field and forest crops,
Taiwan has considerable min-
eral wealth. There are an esti-
mated 400 million tons of coal
in the northwest, oilfields in
the south, sulphur and gold in
the extreme north, asbestos on
the east coast. Deposits of
bauxite, the raw material of
aluminum, are also abundant.

About 97 percent of the
population, which now ex-
ceeds eight millions, are Chin-
ese whose ancestors came
from Fukien and Kwangtung
provinces from the ninth cen-
tury onward.

The other 3 percent are
240,-000 members of the Kao-
shan national minority, des-
cendants of people of Malay

stock, who arrived in the
sixth century.

Karly in the ninth century,
when trade in pearls and
other commodities began with’
Taiwan and the Penghu (Pes-
cadores) Islands, a Chinese
named Shih Shien-wu led the
first group of permanent im-
migrants there.

A regular Chinese admini-
stration, subordinated to one
of the counties of Fukien
province, already existed on
the Pescadores in the 16th
century. Garrison posts were
established. both there and in
Taiwan to prevent these areas
from being invaded by the
Japanese.

A Spanish force under the
command of Don Antonio
Carnio de Valdes arrived in

northeastern Taiwan from
the Philippines in 1626 and
established its’ rule there for
16 years.

In 1642, the Dutch invaded
southern Taiwan, drove out
the Spaniards and remained
on the island for 38 years. At
that time there were more
than 100,000 Chinese on Tai-
wan,

A big peasant revolt against
the extortions of the Dutch
East India Company broke out
in 1652.

Ten. years later, the ~ na-
tional hero Cheng Cheng-
kung, forced the Dutch to sur-
render and evacuate. By 1680,
the Chinese population of Tai-
wan exceeded 200,000.

Continued on back page

See CHINA