Wilson passes the Silver " 6 Education split in Glasgow

Five Corporation schools in Glasgow - Hillhead, Allan Glen's, the High School for Boys, the High School for Girls and NotreDame - charge nominal fees to parents. Consequently they have formed a privileged sector in the City's education system. In spite of constant demands from the City Labour Party the Corporation Labour Group has continually found excuses for not eliminating these schools and has even gone so far as to completely rebuild one of them. Further to this, Glasgow also has a nurter of non-fee paying séective schools. Amongst these is St. Mungo's, run by the Morist Brothers, a teaching order of monks, which the council recently agreed to rebuild as a partially selective school. At the City Labour Party's Annual Policy-Making Conference, held on February 5th, a resolution demanding the immediate ending of both fee-paying and selective schools was carried without dissent. Replying for the Labour ' Group, Councillor George Moore, Education Convenor, gave a specific undertaking that he would introduce a resolution to this effect into the appropriate sub-committee on 23rd February. But he made it plain that he was not sure that his proposal would be accepted. He had originally proposed a committee of 5 Labour and 3 Tory councillors, but Labour councillors had forced the acceptance of 2 representatives from the church and had deprived him of his casting vote. At the City Labour Party two Labour councillors spoke, almost hysterically, against the resolution. At least one Labour conncillor, prominent in the rat-race to win nomination for the Pollok by-election, has publicly declared he will never be party to such & MOVs In these circumstances there will need to be a strong campaign between now and February 23rd to ensure that Labour councillors carry out the clearly stated policy of the Party - and that appropriate action be taken against them if they do not do so,