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It may be said generally of the men whom the Central Committee has befriended thatthey have proved a very deserving class. So eager are many of them to earn their living that they walk daily to Waterloo Station from Poplar and other distant boroughs, in order that they may be engaged for eight hours onthe estate of Long Grove Asylum, near Epsom. Tne London and South-Western Kailway Company conveythem to and from Epsom for eightpence each. Towards this sum the Central Committee con-m r 1 « s *tribute fourpence, in addition to which seven-pence per hour is paid for the labour performed. ] in the evening the men have to walk home from Waterloo Station, and thus, in order to make four shillings and iourpenco per day, they 1 are away from home about twelve hours.
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London Standard

London, Middlesex, GB

Sat, Jan 14, 1905

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