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whose numbers had dropped during the period of violence, started on a period
of expansion and consolidation.
This phase is still continuing and is dealt
with in detail below.
DIRECTION AND CONTROL
Control from China
2.
During the 1950's, when communist schools in Hong Kong were treated
as an adjunct to the Mainland educational system, control appeared to be
exercised through the Kwangtung Provincial Government's Education Department.
During the 1960's, control was passed over to the Farty apparatus and at prosent
educational affairs in Hong Kong are the concern of an organ of the Kwangtung
Provincial Farty Committee, which also controls Hong Kong labour circles.
Control in Hong Kong
9.
In Hong Kong, communist schools are controlled by a Party Committee,
subordinate to Kwangtung. This Party Committee is responsible for running the
hard-core communist schools in the Colony and for the penetration of non-communist
educational establishments at all levels. There is, however, an important
exception. A separate group of schools belonging to the Workers' Children's
Education Promotion Association (WCEPA) are specifically excluded from the
Schools Party Committee's bailiwick and, since they cater for the children of
members of pro-communist trade unions, are under control of the Party Committee
responsible for labour affairs. As has been noted above, the same organ in
Kwangtung is in charge of both schools and labour affairs in Hong Kong, so that
co-ordination between the two groups is presumably achieved at this level.
10.
For administrative purposes the Schools Party Committee divides the
Colony into three geographical divisions, namely Hong Kong East, Hong Kong West
and Kowloon, each in charge of a Party organization responsible for the communist
schools within its area, and for carrying out united front work with non-communist
schools. Where one of the urban schools has opened branch schools outside its
own district (particularly in the New Territories) control of the branch schools
remains with the Party organization responsible for control of the parent school.
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