sentences:  In early April, at a contentious meeting of the two factions, a plan to start an additional colony at Edison of the administrators was defeated and the Equality colonists proposed an amendment giving the colony complete independence in internal affairs, which passed by a vote of 298 to 176.August Lermond resigned from the BCC and returned to Maine, where he founded a new group, the Industrial Brotherhood.By the end of the year, most of the board members had left.