The Social Work of the Salvation Army — John Shaqi
The Social Work of the Salvation ArmyLamb, Edwin Gifford
History
The Social Work of the Salvation Army
Lamb, Edwin Gifford
Poor; Salvation Army; Social history
In England and other countries this work has not assumed such large
proportions, but there is some difference between the workings of the
industrial plant in the City of London and in New York. For instance,
at the Salvation Army plant on Hanbury Street, Whitechapel, London, we
found, in 1906, a planing mill, a paint and furniture shop, a mattress
factory, and a sawmill and cabinet shop. This place had employment for
ninety men, of whom twelve were regularly employed and the remainder
were transients. The regular employees were paid at a union rate of
wages. The men of this industrial plant lived some distance away on
Quaker Street, having possession of part of the Salvation Army shelter
or hotel there, the total accommodation of which was two hundred and
forty. Again, in a different part of the city, over near Deptford, was a
wood yard with good machinery, run by electricity, which employed
anywhere from sixty to seventy men making kindling wood. On the other
hand, at the "Spa Road Elevator," was a plant almost identical with the
industrial plants in the United States, where were shipped out an
average of 100 pounds of paper every week and several tons of rags in
addition, and where was accommodation for some two hundred men.
Branching out from the main industrial plant are nearly always to be
found large stores. These are Salvation Army retail stores. These stores
are found in the poorest sections of the city, and are patronized by the
poorest class. Articles of all descriptions may be purchased here at a
very low figure. In each store is a furniture department; a clothing
department for men, women and children; a toy department; a department
for stoves, pots, etc., and sometimes other departments varying with the
size of the store. It is possible, thus, for a poor family moving into
the neighborhood to completely furnish themselves and their home from
Salvation Army stores at a cost of often less than one-half of what they
would pay elsewhere. Each store has a definite connection with the
central industrial plant, from which it receives its supplies, its
workers and its government, for the stores are merely branches of the
central work, and all are under the same general management.
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