The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

(nationals) should form one single national party. A letter of the CC of the MCP dated 1 May 1930
also stressed; “Hereafter all the communists of China, India and Java should work under the
guidance of the Party of Malay and join the Party life” (see II-3-(3)-c). Did Belogurova make the
same misunderstanding as the FEB?
Notwithstanding this comprehension and resolution, the MCP could not implement
“indigenization” or “localization” sufficiently until the Pacific War.
3. Letter from Shieng Kien Chu to the FEB
In an English letter, dated 26 December 1930, which was sent to the FEB, a certain Shieng Kien
Chu ( 胜 [ 单 ?, 香 ?] 建 柱 ?) noted, as summarized below:
I was introduced by the CC of the Malaya Party to the CCP to receive any training.
Not long after I had made connections with the CCP, the latter called a meeting of
the comrades working in Malaya to discuss the problems of Nanyang (Comrades
Wang Yun Hai and Huang Moh Hang & I participated). During the meeting, it was
decided to ask me to return to Nanyang. The comrades of the CCP stated that the
travelling expenses would be given by you through the CCP.
Three months has passed by since the Meeting. The CCP has not only not given me
the travelling expenses but it has not organized me with the nucleus. I am living in a
condition of extreme poverty, everything having been put into the pawn shop.
I have decided to return to Nanyang immediately and hope you will give me
instructions & the travelling expenses. 7
It is difficult to identify who Shieng was. His name has not appeared in any historian’s research to
date.
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