The Socialist Party of Austria essentially co-shaped the Austrian school policy and through its provincial organization also the educational system for the Slovenian minority in Carinthia. Here the party neglected its basic principle that only the educational system can contribute to the social progress of the non-dominant classes. As the governing party in Carinthia, it failed to comply with its own basic principles. Some of its significant functionaries have led a fight at the local level against mandatory bilingual school and thus found themselves on the same side with the supporters of the independent party and the formally disorganized people and groups who after the signing of the Austrian State Treaty joined different German National Associations and organizations. In September 1958, the state governor Ferdinand Wedenig abolished the mandatory bilingual education with a decree. In the 1940s the vice-chancellor Adolf Schärf disapproved the formation of a Slovenian secondary school at the federal level, which was then decreed in 1957, by minister Drimmel (People’s party) against the will of his party colleagues from Carinthia. Party members, who assessed the education for the Slovenian minority in Carinthia in a positive way, couldn’t assert themselves in the socialist party neither at the provincial nor the federal level.