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Cemetery Strike From Mexico to Manhattan last week went Poet Witter Bynner for the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Annie Brewer Bynner Wellington. Through Brooklyn's streets her funeral procession soberly rolled to Greenwood Cemetery, one of the world's largest burial grounds. When the hearse stopped at the general receiving vault, no cemetery employes appeared to take the casket. Poet Bynner's fellow-mourners carried it in themselves. There they discovered the 350 gravediggers, grass- cutters, gatekeepers, chauffeurs and other laborers, members of the C. I. O. United Cemetery Workers, had gone on strike in protest...
...York's sanitary code requires that all bodies be buried within four days after death. To Mayor LaGuardia, the Greenwood Cemetery crisis had ceased to be a labor dispute and become a problem in public health. So it was-not because of a strike in one cemetery but because it posed the possibility of some great future strike that might spread pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then...
...suits brought by Southern power companies (Alabama Power Co. v. Ickes, Duke Power Co. & Southern Public Utilities Co. v. Greenwood County) which will determine whether PWA-financed projects supplying electricity may compete with privately owned companies...
...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...York Historical Society. Directly across West 77th Street from the ungainly American Museum of Natural History, the New York Historical Society boasts and refuses to transfer 464 of the most important original watercolor drawings of John James Audubon. Other treasures include rooms full of historical portraits, the Isaac J. Greenwood Collection of 405 watercolor drawings of powder horns...