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CHAPTER II
HOW TO FORM A LOCAL BRANCH
PREPARATORY WORK.—A great deal of valuable political work can be done in the quiet times between elections. It is indeed essential to be prepared and to have some organization in readiness for the fight when it comes. Many an election has been won by careful organization and steady work months before the writ for it was issued.
It is of very little use to try to establish a women’s league or a political organization of any kind—whether it be a branch of the Primrose League or the Women’s Liberal Federation—a few days, or even a few weeks, before
