 For the following decade, he devoted himself into school work, with a few years of pastoral work and army chaplaincy in Malaysia.He worked for various voluntary agencies and in 1965 he became director of the Caritas Social Centre, Kennedy Town.In 1968, he co-founded the Industrial Relations Institute with a group of workers to train workers “for participation in free, strong responsible trade unionism” and became the first director for a short period of time.