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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 38, No. 12. June 4 1975

25—5—75 — Minister: Don't expect too Much from MCA

25—5—75

Minister: Don't expect too Much from MCA

Housing and New Villages Minister Mr Michael Chen urged all Chinese guilds, clubs and other organizations to stand together with the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) for the benfit of the Chinese community.

'This is the only way the Chinese can be united and work towards their progress and development as well as towards nation-building," he said.

Mr Chen asked the Chinese community not to expect too much from the MCA. "The MCA is not the dominant party within the National Front," he said. "In tact it is only playing a helping role."

(Mr Chen speaks at the time when there is serious disagreement between the MCA and the National Chinese Teacher Association Board of Directors over the future of Chinese Primary schools.

The National Chinese Teacher Association and the Board of Directors insist, with the backing of over 3,400 Chinese organizations, that Chinese language should be, as it is fact is, the tuition language in the Chinese Primary Schools with Malay and English as secondary languages, while the MCA advocates a policy alongside of the government that Malay is the dominant language at all levels of education.)