The four-day convention opened with 500 delegates of 150,000 miners present. They came 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....
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