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Recognition of China and admission into U.N

Speech by DAP candidate for Serdang State by-election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also the DAP Organising Secretary, at seventh DAP Serdang by-election rally at Serdang Bahru new village on Sunday, 15 December 1968 at 8.p.m.

It is ridiculous that Malaysia, a nation of 10 million people, does not recognise Communist China, a nation of 700 million people.

It is dangerous when Malaysia joins company with some discredited forces in common causes to work for the overthrow of the communist regime on the mainland. This is not only an interference with the affairs of another country, and in this case with the biggest country in the world which is to become the dominant power in Asia, but earning further her enmity and courting trouble.

But this is exactly what the Alliance government is doing.

The Alliance sent a high-level party delegation to the first conference of the World Anti-Communist League held in Taipei, Taiwan in September last year. Continue reading Recognition of China and admission into U.N

Re-organise the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital

PRESS RELEASE

The DAP Organising Secretary, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, today called for an immediate re-organisation of the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital to cut out all inefficiency, delay, deplorable service and incompetence which has made it one of the most inefficient hospitals in Malaysia.

Mr. Lim said the re-organisation of the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital should be the first step to overhaul the entire deplorable health service system in the country.

Mr. Lim said the people most affected by the deplorable service and standard of the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital are the poor and those from the lower income groups. The more well-to-do can afford to go to private clinics and hospital. Continue reading Re-organise the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital

A question for Mr. Michael Chen

Speech by DAP Candidate for Serdang State by-election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also DAP Organising Secretary, at the sixth DAP Serdang by-election rally at Salak South new village on Saturday, 14th December 1968.

A question for Mr. Michael Chen

A week ago, I asked the Alliance candidate, Mr. Thuan Phaik Phok, whether he support the DAP stand that “land does not belong to any one race or community, but belong to the nation, and should be given to Malaysian landless, regardless of race.”

Instead of giving a straightforward answer, Mr. Thuan tried to point out that there is a contradiction in the statement. Continue reading A question for Mr. Michael Chen

GERAKAN and Serdang By-election

The DAP Candidate for Serdang, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also DAP Organising Secretary, today issued the following statement:

At the Gerakan Serdang by-election public rally in Serdang Bahru new village last Sunday, 8th December 1968, the Gerakan Secretary-General, Dr. Tan Chee Khoon asserted that the DAP and myself have branded the people of Serdang Bahru and Salak South new villages as ‘communists.’

This is a downright lie. I have never said or thought any such thing, nor is it the view of the DAP.

I invite Dr. Tan Chee Khoon to substantiate his statement, to state where and when I or the DAP had made any such statement. Continue reading GERAKAN and Serdang By-election

Eviction of 2,000 people

Press Statement

About 2,000 people residing on the land between Jalan Kuantan and Jalan Seavoy, of about 230 houses, have been given one week’s notice by the Setapak Tin Land Syndicated Ltd. and Ban Hock Hin Mining Ltd. to demolish their houses tomorrow, 13th December 1968.

The resident were asked to shift to Subang, more than 20 miles from their present residence, without compensation whatsoever.

The majority of the resident are hawkers and construction workers. Now they are threatened with the destruction of their homes, where many have stayed from 10 to 50 years, the disruption of their means of livelihood, and even the deprivation of educational opportunities for their children, for the nearest schools to the proposed Subang site are five to ten miles away. Continue reading Eviction of 2,000 people

New Deal for Workers of Malaysia

Speech by DAP Candidates for Serdang State by-election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also DAP Organising Secretary, at the fifth DAP Serdang by-election public rally held at Serdang Lama on Wednesday, 11th December 1968 at 8 p.m.

The workers have been one of the most neglected sections of the population in the last 13 years of Alliance rule.

This is because the Alliance government is a feudal-compradore government which has no sympathy or understanding of the suffering and hardships of the working class.

Over the years, the plight of the workers have worsened, as a result of the deteriorating economic situation, the spiralling unemployment and a steeply rising cost of living. Continue reading New Deal for Workers of Malaysia

The rebuilding of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Federal Experimental Station, Serdang

DAP candidate for the Serdang State By election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang and DAP National Organising Secretary, today issued the following statement:

When I visited the Federal Experimental Station in Serdang on Sunday, the people of Serdang Station complained that Mr. Micheal Chen, the Member of Parliament for the area, has broken his promise to rebuild the Sri Mariamman Temple in Serdang Station.

Mr. Micheal Chen had promised to rebuild the Sri Mariamman Temple during the 1964 general elections campaign, and after his election, verbally pledged to get $8,000 for the rebuilding of the Temple. Continue reading The rebuilding of the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Federal Experimental Station, Serdang

Ten questions on language, education and culture for Mr. Thuan Phaik Fook, Alliance candidate for Serdang.

Speech by the DAP candidate for the Serdang State By election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang who is also DAP Organising Secretary, at the fourth DAP Serdang by-election public rally held at Sungei Way New Village on Sunday, 8th December , 1968 at 8 p.m:

Mr. Thuan Phaik Fook is graduate of the Nanyang University. He said at the first Alliance rally in Serdang last Thursday that the voters should elect him as Assemblyman, because he would fight for the Chinese-educated in the country.

Mr. Thuan told the public that before he joined the MCA, he had wrong ideas about the MCA and had condemned the MCA. He was then getting a salary of $120 a month, after graduating from the Nanyang University, later, through introduction of a friend, he get a job in the MCA, with a salary of five to six hundred dollars. It was then he found that the MCA was a good party. Continue reading Ten questions on language, education and culture for Mr. Thuan Phaik Fook, Alliance candidate for Serdang.

The MCA – Pawns of Malay racialists

Speech by DAP Candidate for Serdang State by-election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also DAP Organising Secretary, at the third DAP Serdang by-election public rally held at Serdang Bahru new village on Saturday, 7th December 1968 at 8 p.m.

I read Mr. Michael Chen’s speech at the first Alliance rally in Serdang Bahru two nights ago with great shock, sadness and sorrow.

I am shocked by what Mr. Michael Chen said in his speech, and I am saddened because Mr. Michael Chen, who is a very likeable man, should really believe what he said. Continue reading The MCA – Pawns of Malay racialists

Land for the landless

Speech by DAP Candidates for Serdang State By-election, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, who is also DAP Organising Secretary, at the second DAP Serdang by-election public rally held at Puchong 14 milestone on Friday, 6th December 1968 at 8 p.m.

On December 1, 1968, at the first DAP Serdang by-election public rally, I made a pledge on behalf of the DAP – known as the DAP’s Serdang Twenty Points – which spelt out the social, economic and cultural objectives the DAP will strive for the benefit of the people.

Point One of the Serdang Twenty Points called for “Land to be given to all landless, regardless of race. The only yardstick should be need.”

Malaysia has vast tracts of arable land which have not been opened up. But with every passing year, the problem of unemployment and underemployment intensifies, while the army of landless multiplies.

One major way to solve the problem of unemployment and underemployment in a land-rich country like Malaysia is to give land to the landless, which will have three beneficial results, in (1) strengthening Malaysia’s agricultural base; (2) earn more national income for the country; and (3) provide work and a means of livelihood for the thousands of landless and unemployed. Continue reading Land for the landless