When SCMSSU was officially registered in 6 October 1955, the agenda of the union must be clearly laid out and the union should not, under any circumstances, be involved in any political activities. However, less than a year later, on 24 September 1956, the SCMSSU was dissolved by Lim Yew Hock on grounds of violating the registration condition. The Minister for Education, Chew Swee Kee, explained more about why the union had been deregistered.
"The Ministry took steps to fully access the activities of the SCMSSU before arriving at this conclusion. During our investigations, we discovered that the union was peripheral organization of the Communists. Although the union was registered under special conditions to prohibit involvement in any political activities, the union has violated the condition and grouped with other Communist parties to participate in political activities. The Government has in the past detained several students connected to the Communist Party under the Internal Security Act, and one of the students was a committee member of the SCMSSU. he has disclosed secret and illegal documents of the Malayan Communist Party." -Chew Swee Kee, Minister for Education
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