'SIT-DOWN' IN CEMETERY
Grave-Diggers Dissatisfied (Eeceived 8, 8.45 a.m ) NEW YORK, April 7. A message from North Arlington, New Jersey, states that -45 gravediggers' labourers commenced a sit-down strike 'in the Catholic cemetery. They playod cards and quoits ignoring 'four funeral processions. The coffins were placed in a vault to await their gravea. The diggers were satisfied with their wages but demand a minimum of five dollars a day for helpers, and a five. day week. The vault capacity is twenty-one coffins.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 5
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