The globe is the Workmen's Circle emblem. The letters 'A', 'R' stand for Arbeter Ring, the Yiddish for the former. Workmen's Circle was a secular Jewish fraternal for the Yiddish speaking Ashkenazi immigrants and their children. A 'fraternal' is a mutual aid society. Workmen's Circle was founded in 1900 in New York City. It was part of labor, socialism, and the social justice movements. Since its peak influence, it has dwindled, and has moved toward the political center. It's paper, Forverts (the Forward), was the largest non-English paper in the country, for a time.
In 1920 the Cleveland lodges bought land for a cemetery in Parma, Ohio. The labor Jews were, at that time, living around Kinsman, and Woodland on the east side of Cleveland. Parma is on the [south] west side. The Workmen's Circle graveyard has separate section for other Jewish groups.
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