48 THE STORY OF THE U.F.O. 



cally on an important moral and political 

 question. Immediately following the second 

 annual meeting, a directors' meeting was held, 

 and further plans for extension were laid. As a 

 part of these plans, J. J. Morrison was appointed 

 an organizer, and, while the finances of the 

 association were not at that time strong enough 

 to pay anything like adequately for the work 

 undertaken, an allowance was made to remuner- 

 ate him in some manner for the time and energy 

 spent on this work. A committee was also 

 appointed to prepare literature and to hold 

 district conventions. 



Up to this time there had been no formal 

 affiliation between the United Farmers of 

 Ontario and the Western organizations, though 

 the most cordial relations had been maintained. 



At a second directors' meeting, held on 

 April 20th, 1916, the United Farmers formally 

 affiliated with the Canadian Council of Agricul- 

 ture. It is significant, too, that at this meeting, 

 the directors, having taken stock of the whole 

 movement, both as to the Company organized 

 for commercial purposes and as to the education- 

 al part of the movement, received the report of a 

 special committee which pointed out that too 

 much attention was being paid to the com- 

 mercial activities and not sufficient to education- 

 al and social interests. 



