Word: cappelini
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...joint sub-committee composed of four operators and four miners most of the bargaining was done. Samuel D. Warriner led the operators; John L. Lewis the miners. Rinaldo Cappelini, radical President-elect of the United Mine Workers, District 1, was not a member of this body. The chief discussion was over the " checkoff" system whereby the coal companies collect dues for the unions out of miners' pay. The operators did not openly deny the demand of the miners for the checkoff, but asked a great many questions indicating their opposition to the idea...
...object of the adjournment was to permit the miners to attend the biennial convention of the District 1 union. At this convention the election of Capellini as President of that union is expected to be ratified. In that event, soon after the reassemblage of the conference at Atlantic City, Cappelini, most radical of all the miners' leaders, will automatically take a place on the subcommittee that bargains with the operators-and the conference will fight out the remaining issues...
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