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It is usual for them to put in a month with one firm , then a fortnight with another , then perhaps six weeks somewhere else , and often between there are two or three days or even weeks of enforced idleness . This sort of thing goes on all through spring , summer and autumn . The Easter Offering . The Beano Meeting By the beginning of April , Rushton & Co. were again working nine hours a day , from seven in the morning till five-thirty at night , and after Easter they started working full time from 6 A.M. till 5.30 P.M. , eleven and a half hours -- or , rather , ten hours , for they had to lose half an hour at breakfast and an hour at dinner . Just before Easter several of the men asked Hunter if they might be allowed to work on Good Friday and Easter Monday , as , they said , they had had enough holidays during the winter ; they had no money to spare for holiday-making , and they did not wish to lose two days ' pay when there was work to be done . Hunter told them that there was not sufficient work in to justify him in doing as they requested : things were getting very slack again , and Mr Rushton had decided to cease work from Thursday night till Tuesday morning . They were thus prevented from working on Good Friday , but it is true that not more than one working man in fifty went to any religious service on that day or on any other day during the Easter festival .