ODD JOBS FOR MEN
PARSON SEES IT THROUGH.
Young unemployed men are now engaged at a regular wage on excavation work at Whalley Abbey, in Lancashire, as part of a scheme promoted by Canon Sinker, of Blackburn, who has promised to add £5 to every £lOO raised for his “find work” fund. All manner of odd jobs are tackled by these young out-of-work, men, including rat catching, knocking-up, addressing envelopes, cleaning cars, wheeling-out babies, exercising dogs, shaking carpets, mouse-proofing larders, exterminating beetles, and mending chairs. Poor people who cannot afford to pay anything for services rendered for house renovation are provided -with the men and tools free, and the money for the work done is paid out of the canons’ fund, which now totals nearly £3OO.
“You just find the work and the paper and paint,” Canon Sinker tells them. ,“I will find the money.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 12
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