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Show MUSTS IP FUTURECAMPA!GPJ Will Divide Country Into Five Districts; Each in Charge of a Chairman. CHICAGO, March 9 Tlie executive committee of the new national party at its first meeting today, mapped out plans for future campaigns. The country coun-try will be divided into five divisions with a chairman, to be named by the executive committee, in charge of each. The divisions will be the northern, southern, central, northwestern and western. Colonel W. C. McClure of Atlanta, Ga., National Chairman David Coates and J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey, chairman of the executive committee, already have started planning for work in the southern division. The new party will join hands with the labor element in Montana to further fur-ther mutual aims, it was decided after a plea had been made before the committee com-mittee by O. H. T. Shelley and Miss Linda Alexander of Montana for co-operation between labor and the nationals. na-tionals. Mrs. Howard Gould of New York presented her resignation to the executive execu-tive committee, saying that her many other duties made it impossible for her to serve, and Frank A. Patterson of New Jersey was elected in her place. John Spargo of New York, also was elected to the executive committee. Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the Prohibition party's national committee, informed the nationals that the prohibition prohi-bition committee had decided to do everything possible to bring closer coordination co-ordination and co-operation between the two parties. |