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38. Gamba, The origins of trade unionism, p. 284.
39. Brazier to Commissioner for Labour, 19 September 1947, LAB/158/47, ANM; For example, ‘Trade dispute Rengo Malay Estate, 12 November 1947’, LAB/139/47, ANM.
40. Quoted in Gamba, The origins of trade unionism, p. 296.
41. Gimson to Creech Jones, 4 March 1947, CO537/2171, TNA; Malaya Tribune, 14 February 1947.
42. Minutes of sixth Governor General’s conference in Singapore, 11 March 1947, in Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, Part I, pp. 303–6.
43. Labour Report for October 1947, LAB/54/47, ANM.
44. Malaya Tribune, 16 October 1947.
45. Chin Peng, My side of history (Singapore, 2004), pp. 195–6; ‘Lawlessness and insecurity’, The Planter, 23, 10 (October, 1947), pp. 240–44.
46. Quoted in Nicholas J. White, Business, government and the end of empire: Malaya, 1945–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1996), p. 82.
47. Ibid., p. 103; Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang (San Pedro, CA, 1973), p. 54.
48. Gimson to Creech Jones, 2 March 1947 and 20 March 1947, CO537/2171, TNA.
49. Gent to J. J. Paskin, 20 September 1946; Paskin to Gent, 4 October 1946, CO537/1522, TNA.
50. ‘Report on the Special Conference on the threat of Communism in Malaya and Singapore, 1947’, 26 June 1947, Dalley Papers, RHO.
51. Michael Stenson, Repression and revolt: the origins of the 1948 communist insurrection in Malaya and Singapore (Athens, OH, 1969).
52. C. W. Lyle, ‘Selangor Protest Committee’, 16 July 1947, LAB/158/47, ANM.
53. Returns on LAB/562/47, ANM. See also Leong, Labour and trade unionism in Malaya pp. 168–73.
54. Laurence K. L. Siaw, Chinese society in rural Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, 1983), p. 86.
55. MSS/PIJ, 15 October 1947.
56. They were also written with access to British documents and ‘as told’ to a retired Daily Telegraph journalist, Ian Ward, and his wife and collaborator Norma Miraflor. Chin Peng discusses the relationship briefly in his preface to My side of history, pp. 4–5.
57. Ibid., pp. 167–74.
58. MSS/PIJ, 31 March 1947.
59. There is a discrepancy here over the dates. Chin Peng, in his memoirs, gives the date as late January, and the subsequent meeting at which the dossier of evidence was presented as 6 March. However, this must be an error. Most other sources give the date of Lai Teck’s disappearance as 6 March and of the meeting to expel Lai Teck as May, and we have followed them. The March date was also given by Chin Peng when questioned directly in an earlier interview: Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 171–9; C. C. Chin and Karl Hack (eds.), Dialogues with Chin Peng: new light on the Malayan Communist Party (Singapore, 2004), pp. 124–6. See also Anthony Short, In pursuit of mountain rats: the communist insurrection in Malaya (Singapore, 2000 [1975]), pp. 40–41. We are grateful to C. C. Chin for clarification of this point.
60. Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 178–9.
61. ‘The Wright (@ Lye Teck) Document: “A written statement on Lye Teck’s case issued on 28 May 1948 by the MCP Central Committee”’, supplement to MSS/PIJ, 31 July, 1948.
62. Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 179–84.
63. Christopher E. Goscha, Thailand and the Southeast Asian networks of the Vietnamese revolution, 1885–1954 (London, 1999), ch. 5.
64. Ibid., pp. 187–8.
65. Chin and Hack, Dialogues with Chin Peng, p. 130.
66. Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 188–9.
67. Ibid., pp. 187–91; Chin and Hack, Dialogues with Chin Peng, pp. 106–10.
68. ‘The Wright (@ Lye Teck) Document’; MSS/PIJ, 31 July 1948.
69. Ibid.
70. ‘Interrogation of a Perak prisoner, MCP area representative, political’, Supplement No. 7 to MSS/PIJ, 15 July 1948.
71. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 44; C. C. Chin, ‘In search of the revolution: a brief biography of Chin Peng’, in Chin and Hack,