Month: March 1971

Standard of Education

I wish here to refer to a burning question in the schools which is connected with the standard of teaching, which is itself not unrelated to the subject of teachers’ salaries.

This is a problem which has been created by the switch of the media of instruction in all National-type (English) primary schools. All National-type (English) Primary Schools have now switched the media of instruction from English to Bahasa Malaysia for Standard One and
Standard Two classes.

For Standard Four and Five classes, all subjects, apart from science and mathematics, are being taught in Bahasa Malaysia. There will be further conversion of the teaching medium so that by the end of this decade, Bahasa Malaysia will be the sole teaching medium in all govt.-aided primary as well as secondary schools. Continue reading Standard of Education

Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Speech in DAP Secretary-General,Mr.Lim Kit Siang, at the re-election of the new Perak State Standing Sub-Committee in Ipoh on Monday, 29th March 1971 at 5.30 p.m.

Unemployment-the government’s biggest failure

Despite the government’s much-waunted multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentence of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace.

In 1969, when the Ipoh Municipal Council wanted to fill 21 vacancies for labourers, over 2,000 people jammed the Municipality Padang for the posts. In the same year, when a new hotel in Kuala Lumpur advertised for 110 vacancies for waiters, receptionists, cashiers, bellboys and supervisors, over 4,500 people, including 3,000 School Certificate holders, applied for the positions. Continue reading Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

Too All Branches

The sedition case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng is coming up before the Sessions Court on March 29, 1971.

We are applying for the case to be transferred to High Court to be heard by a judge. We are also making an application for the admission of Queen’s Counsel, Sir Dingle Foot, to appear for Sdr.Dr.Ooi Kee Saik.

Retained for Dr.Ooi is also Mr.Peter Mooney. Dato. S.P.Seenivasagam will defend Sdr.Fan Yew Teng. Continue reading Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY

MALAYSIA

COPY

11.3.71

The Speaker,

Dewan Ra’ayat,

Parliament.

Sir,

I have been instructed by my Parliament Group of 13 DAP Members of Parliament to lodge an official protest against the unfair allocation of time for DAP Members in he Constitution Amendment Bill debate and in the debate on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Royal Address. Continue reading A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity

Speech by Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka (DAP) Mr.Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Ra’ayat on the debate on the Royal Address from the Throne on 9.3.1971

Mr.Speaker, Sir, His Majesty, the Yang di-Peruan Agong, in his Royal Address, spoke of the government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity.

We do not quarrel with these objectives. But there is considerable room for disagreement as to whether government policies and measures are aimed at these objectives, or whether, on the converse, they can only aggravate economic inequality and undermine national solidarity and unity.

Despite the government’s multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentences of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace. Continue reading Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity