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2. Removal of disabilities of rural women in 

 qualifying for school trustees. 



3. Special attention to our system of educa- 

 tion. 



4. Appointment of county police matrons. 



5. Labor-saving devices for the home on the 

 free list. 



This being accomplished and the provisional 

 officers having been elected as permanent officers 

 for the ensuing year, the women repaired to 

 Convocation Hall where the men were 

 assembled. 



There, so far as that first annual convention 

 was concerned, probably the best work for the 

 U.F.W.O. was accomplished. Their standing 

 with the U.F.O. must be secured. At the even- 

 ing session, December 18th, 1918, the twenty- 

 five women occupied seats on the platform fac- 

 ing the fifteen hundred men delegates, and, in the 

 words of the secretary, "No warmer reception, 

 no more enthusiastic response could woman 

 desire than that accorded by the U.F.O. to the 

 U.F.W.O. that night. It became clear on that 

 occasion that the men and women of rural 

 Ontario were engaged to secure the removal of 

 oppressive burdens from agriculture, to raise 

 the standard of living on the farms, to establish 

 a just and representative government, and to 

 gain a bigger, better, freer life all along the line." 



