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...
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