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form which appealed to the people, and while 

 many of them (like David Harum's calf), had 

 "just gi'n out" from sheer lack of interest, a fair 

 number were alive and were centres of com- 

 munity interest. Morrison's idea was put ' 

 in few words: "Let's steal the clubs," said he. 

 (This was Brother Morrison's first venture in 

 Bolshevism.) 



Much letter writing followed this first informal 

 conference. Officers of the Farmers' Clubs, 

 Granges, Live Stock Associations, Co-operative 

 Fruit Associations and any others who, it was 

 thought, could be interested, were communicated 

 with. In general the response was satisfactory. 

 A few small preliminary meetings were held 

 during the winter of 1913-14, and finally a con- 

 ference was arranged to take place in the Labor 

 Temple on March 19th and 20th, 1914, at which k 

 the question of creating a new Provincial v - 

 brganization was to be dealt with. 



This organization meeting was quite largely 

 attended, some 300 delegates crowding the room 

 which had been secured for the occasion. At 

 the beginning of the conference a considerable 

 divergence of opinion was manifest. Nearly 

 all agreed that an adequate provincial organiza- 

 tion ought to be formed, but there were many 

 who doubted the ability of the farmers to stick, 

 and who thought, in view of past experience, 



