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  • 1973, approximately 1,700 gravediggers at 47 cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area went on strike due to disagreements over the terms of a new...
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    many cultures, gravediggers are stigmatized for their association with the dead, which many religions consider unclean. Gravediggers have often been...
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  • Richmondtown 1973 New York City gravediggers' strike List of cemeteries in New York List of cemeteries in the United States Portals: New York City Lists "African...
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  • United States portal List of strikes List of striking US workers by year Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1973-01-01). "Analysis of Work Stoppages...
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    strike – Solidarity Online". 8 September 2017. Bao, Xiaolan (2001). Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City...
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  • Calvary Cemetery strike was a labor strike involving gravediggers and other workers at the Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City. The strike began on January...
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    archbishop of New York. In 1949, the 240 gravediggers at the Catholic cemeteries in the archdiocese went on strike. After negotiations with the union broke...
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    Winter of Discontent (category 1978 labor disputes and strikes)
    well. These actions included an unofficial strike by gravediggers working in Liverpool and Tameside, and strikes by refuse collectors, leaving uncollected...
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    Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Maspeth and Woodside, Queens, in New York City, New York, United States. With about three million burials, it has the largest...
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    at one point there were numerous gravediggers at Green-Wood, as of 2006[update] there were just a few gravediggers due to a decrease in the number of...
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    Stadium in Piscataway. Strikes also grew common during the Great Depression; in 1937 a group of gravediggers from New Jersey went on strike. In 1938, Orson Welles...
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    than one million dollars by the end of the year. Gravediggers walked out on strike in New York City and parts of Long Island and Westchester County. The...
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  • We Work the Black Seam (category UK miners' strike (1984–1985))
    Winter of Discontent, several weeks of strikes by unions representing hauliers, garbage workers, gravediggers and other government workers aggravated...
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    Joe Strummer (category People educated at City of London Freemen's School)
    the Niagara Bar in the East Village of New York City. In 2013, the mural was destroyed due to construction; a new mural was unveiled that September, accompanied...
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    Les Crane (category Radio personalities from New York City)
    gripped by a coal strike. Reprinted in The New York Sun. Weber, Bruce (July 15, 2008). "Les Crane, Talk-Show Host, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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    Malcolm X (category African-American history in New York City)
    Malcolm X was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Friends took up the gravediggers' shovels to complete the burial themselves. Actor and...
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  • two theaters, El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles and Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and featuring live shows with ticket prices up to $30. The...
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    of the Salvation Army in Tulsa, said that 37 blacks were employed as gravediggers to bury 120 blacks in individual graves without coffins on Friday and...
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    2010). "Europe's Plagues Came From China, Study Finds". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved November 1, 2010. John of Ephesus, Ecclesiastical...
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    Stewart Spencer. with new notes by Cliff Eisen. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300072235. Borowitz, Albert I. (April 1973). "Salieri and the...
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