eect LATIN Continued JOBLESS In Windsor, where there is large-scale unemployment, his speech fell on deaf ears. There th Big Three of the auto in- dustry rejected United Auto Workers’ proposals for con- tract provisions that would provide more jobs. In Vancouver. on this week, George Home, secretary-treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labor, told the Rotary Club: “One million Canadians will be looking for work this win- ter. By January, February and March of 1959 we can expect to see soup kitchens again in various cities of Canada.” Having charged that tain groups” of big business, by their campaign against or- ganized labor, were aggravat- ing the situation, he sought to evoke a response from his audience of businessmen by suggesting the danger of this because of “the tremendous role played by labor in the East-West struggle.” “Management,” he said, “is interested in the wage prob- lem, but it is not as interested in the unemployment prob- lem.” He repeated the B.C. Federa- tion of Labor demand, made earlier this year, for a confer- ence on unemployment with federal, provincial and muni- cipal governments, labor and management participating. Unemployment figures for B.C. for July, the latest avail- able, show 55,748 looking for work as compared to 31,377 in July 1957. In Vancouver, 28,255 were looking for work as compared to 16,650 a year ago. In February this year, 99,502 were looking for work in B.C., of whom 43,574 were in Van- couver. All these figures fall short of reflecting the full situation because they do not take into account short time or seasonal work. Nor do they take into account the fact that the in- comes of thousands of families, affected by unemployment last winter, will be further reduced this winter. The Pacific Tribune was ad- vised by two city lawyers this week that the number of fore- closures by mortgage com- panies may be expected to rise sharply in the next few months. “I already have four or five cases,” said one. “Last winter most mortgage companies were willing to let payments slide until the man got back to work. Where they weren’t, it wasn’t difficult for a man to sell and get his equity out. Now the companies are getting tougher and there isn’t the same money around to buy out equities.” Tuesday “cer- -TRIBUNE 702 <=1BE DS PLUMBERS’ STRIKE ‘ Talks new proposal brin we ; Possibility that the plumbers’ strike may be settled om @ modification of the 26-cent package deal recommended by FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1958 PESCADORES eKAOHSIUNG at In 1950 Dean Acheson, then U.S. secretary of state, said that “when Formosa was made a province of China nobody raised any lawyers’ doubts... Continued from page 1 Goldenberg majority report was opened up this week follow! discussions between Plumbers Union Local 170 and Mast Plumbers Association. The modification is reported to involve relinquishing by the union of retroactive pay. Master Plumbers Association is said to have agreed to put the 26-cent proposed settle- ment to a ballot of its mem- bers, which it had previously refused to do. The union has already voted to accept the 26- cent package deal, but on the assumption that it would be retroactive, and any modifica- tion would require a further vote. In the meantime, Plumbers Union Local 170 has challenged a Vancouver Province report that the provincial labor de- partment is refusing to recog- nize contracts already signed, stating that it has letters on {ile from the labor departmel accepting such contracts. Continued DUCLOS tation through the demands co foreign imperialists—these are the real contents of de Gaulles policy which allegedly w4° pring a “great future” to nation, Duclos says. The longer de Gaulle power, the more intensifié will ‘be the Algerian wat, ‘an the more France will ley i independence. De Gaulle led France on the way to aster and degeneration, says. is in CHINA'S CLAIM TO TAIWAN In 1885, the island became a Chinese province in its own right. But foreign begun once more to covet Tai- wan — which the weak, cor- rupt and treacherous Manchu government could not defend. In the eighteen-fifties Am- erican traders, officers and diplomats campaigned for its powers had annexation to the United States. Their actions ranged from the temporary hoisting of the U.S. flag over Kaoh- siung, to a big naval landing. In 1874, the Japanese, with U.S. backing, launched an un- successful invasion. Finally,. after the first Sino- Japanese war of 1894-95, Li Hung-chang, then in charge of China’s foreign relations, sign- ed Taiwan away to Japan. Between 1895 and 1945 the Japanese population, civil and military rose to 320,000. The same half-century witnessed more than 20 revolts against Japan. There were new _ uprisings in 1934 and 1941. Guerrilla forces were organized in 1945 on the eve of Japan’s sur- render in the Second World War. In Taiwan, the slogan of the Resistance was always re- union of Taiwan with China. For this aim, in the half-cen- tury of Japanese domination, an estimated 500,000 people on the island gave their lives. The Cairo Declaration of December 1, 1943, signed by the U.S., Britain and China, declared: All the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores should be returned to China. President Franklin D. Roose- velt, in a broadcast, said that the principle that had been applied was a very simple one —that stolen property should go back to those to whom it belonged. After the Japanese surrender the Kuomintang regime, then still in power in China, set up an administration in Taiwan. Kuomintang General Chen Yi moved into Taiwan in 1946. The 300,000 Japanese who had been the island’s administra- tors, engineers, landowners and executives went back to Japan: Chiang’s' boodlers im- mediately moved in on the island’s industry and agricul- ture. The Taiwan Chinese watched the looting of industry and the seizure of land that be- longed to them. They watched corruption mushroom under Chaing’s avaricious agents. Tenant farmers groaned under new and higher levies on what they produced. Farmers with land suffered ruthless seizures for taxes. Tension on the island mounted to- the breaking point. The breaking point came in the uprising of 1947, Chiang’s officials locked themselves into their offices. The people took over first the streets, then the adminis- tration of most of Taiwan’s cities. General Chen Yi, Chiang’s governor, temporized. By March 2 he was promising compensation to the families of all those whom his police had killed. He appointed an investigating commission com- posed of prominent Taiwan Chinese and Chiang repre- sentatives from the mainland. On March 8 Chen Yi was done with stalling. The Chiang troops he had been awaiting from the mainland entered Keelund and Taipeh. A reign of terror was launched in which thousands were murdered. Most Taiwan members of the joint com- mission were among those ex- ecuted. When Chiang was forced to flee the mainland with the remnants of ‘his defeated armies in 1949, the people of Taiwan received him reluct- antly. They were not strong enough to expel him them- selves but they looked confi- dently to the day when the island would be liberal from the mainland. e, the Yet even at that tim 0 United States did not dare, af deny that Taiwan was an } egral part of China. President Truman declare in January 1950: “The United States has . intention of tes i armed forces to interfer’, f the present situation. t United States cover will not pursue a course 77", will lead to involveme? the civil conflict in - He stressed specifically sce no “military aid or ‘ca would be provided to ch Kai-shek, g Bt Se. =e. GS Se SS se an Secretary of State e Acheson followed m8 statement that “when e mosa was made-a proving China nobody raised any yers’’ doubts: