Title	Rose Hill Cemetery in Akron, 1957
Subject	Cemeteries Rose Hill Cemetery Funerals Funeral homes Employees People Akron City of Akron Exteriors
Description	Photograph of picketers at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fairlawn, Ohio. Operating Engineers Local 821 was striking the cemetery to back up demands for a contract covering grave diggers and caretakers.
Contributors	Akron Beacon Journal
Date	Fe bruary 19, 1957
Time period	1950s
Type	Image
Format	8 x 10 in.
Source	Cemeteryies_Rose_Hill_Cemetery_Fairlawn_2a.jpg
Verso Transcription	Pickets at Rose Hill / 2-19-57 / 4 col 2 star Tues / Beacon Journal Photo FEB 19 1957 / Delay One Burial At Rose Hill But Second Still Scheduled / A scheduled burial at Rose Hill Cemetery this morning was called off because pickets were posted at the gates of the burial park by Operating Engineers Local 821. Another burial this afternoon was to be held as scheduled. Billo Co. employees are organized by Local 821, the same local attempting to win union recognition for grave diggers and caretakers at Rose Hill. A Billow Co. spokesman said the burial of Sherman Jacobs, 69, of 600 Inman st. was cancelled because the picket line was put up. The body was being held at the funeral home after services this morning. Another burial, that of Vernice M. Washer, 74, of 309 Caledonia av. was to go on as scheduled at Rose Hill this afternoon. That service is being handled by Cox Funeral Home whose employees are not union members. Six grave diggers and caretakers at the cemetery struck this morning to back up demands for union recognition and a first contract. The union is asking for a $2 hourly wage, a 48-hour work week, time and a half for overtime, six paid holidays and health and welfare benefits. Meanwhile, Mayor Berg said he would instruct Health Director John Morley to keep in touch with the situation so that he could move in if any health problem might develop. Berg met with representatives of the Akron Federation of Labor and Local 821. The union had asked the mayor to step in to help get negotiations started with cemeteries and funeral homes. "The only way I can get into this strike is if it should begin affecting the health of the people of Akron" Berg said. "Until that time, I am maintaining the most neutral ground I can find." Atty. Robert Shuff, legislative representative of the Akron Federation of Labor, Thomas Arconti, federation vice president, and James Rogers, business agent of Local 821, met with the mayor. Local 821 has been striking the Adams Funeral Home for the last several weeks. The Union representatives asked the mayor to have parking ban signs removed from in front of the funeral home. "We put them there to avoid trouble" Berg said. "I'm afraid of a disturbance otherwise." Shuff said that by putting no parking signs in front of only the Adams home, the city is "pointing up labor trouble there." A city ordinance bans parking in front of all funeral homes. However, the ordinance has never been enforced. Last week the signs were posted in front of Adams' after three cars owned by the funeral home were reportedly damaged by being sprayed with a liquid that took the paint off. The union denied any connection with the incident.
Relation	Akron Beacon Journal Photograph Collection
About the Collection	This collection includes photographs of Akron and Summit County, Ohio, selected from the archives of the Akron Beacon Journal and contributed through a partnership between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Images may include crop marks, blacking, opaquing, painting, retouching and other enhancements made prior to publication, including markings that may obscure or revise original elements of the photographs. These markings and enhancements have been left intact intentionally.
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Date modified	August 10 2015

Rose Hill Cemetery in Akron, 1957

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