LEVYING TOLL
GRAVEDIGGERS' CLIQUE
LONDON, Ist June.
The Edmonton Council, which had been receiving complaints from, gravediggers' assistants at the local cemetery that they woro not allowed to participate in lowering the coffins into the graves discovered that there was a, clique of grave-diggers who were levying a toll of gratuities from sorrowing relatives. The council has issued a decree that all diggers must be allowed to lower the- bodies, and none may receive gratuities, under penalty of instant dismissal. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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80LEVYING TOLL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 9
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