Word: cappellini
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...from three districts in the heart of the anthracite fields, Nos. 1, 7 and 9, and they came with division in their ranks. District 1 contains 70,000 miners of the 150,000 in the group and District 1 recently chose as its leader, by an overwhelming vote, Rinaldo Cappellini, young Italian "radical." The defeated candidate, William J. Brennan, backed by the Lewis administration, retires from the Presidency of his district on August 1. But already young Cappellini is eager to seize the reins...
...situation when the convention opened: Cappellini?the man who lost his right arm in a coal mine, got scant damages, went away for two years, educated himself, learned English, and came back as one of the most formidable leaders of the miners ?Cappellini, young, black-haired, impulsive, hating the mine owners, was there, supported by a delegation which the moderates feared might control the convention. He was the man who led the fight against acceptance of the terms on which the five months' strike of last year was terminated. Opposed to him was Lewis, the big boss, who barely...