In its final session the conference discussed a resolution from the Scott"support for the resolutions by the Labour Party's Scottish conference at Troon and the STUC at Perth. We ask the Scottish Council of Tenants to prepare and launch a campaign to implement these resolutions*.
At this point leading members of the Communist Party, including ex-councillor Finlay Hart from Clydebank, rose to oppose te resoluton on me ground: that it is up to the Labour Party or the STUC to implement their own resolutions. Acording to this argument, the decisions of the labour movement and its organisations are of no concern to the rest of the working class once the voting if over. But the conference voted by a large majority to reject this argument and endorse the Scottish Council resolution.
The conterence was very much a first step, but an important successful one. As Rowland Sheret, a leading member of the Scottish Council of Tenants and Raploch Tenants Group, explained: 'All too often the hands go up to vote against me state or scorusn nousing but nothing is done. and the campaign following it provide a real opportunity to unite all those who are actually prepared to take practical action to make decent working class housing into a real social service." NUS conference voted for action on 26 May despite opposition from Executive