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ontentment is a feeling that eludes many people. They have acquired the habit of always wanting more


HYACINTH bulbs have been planted in the grounds of Clitheroe Hospital to mark the 75th anniversary of Soroptimist International.


| blue colour. The Soroptimists—a group of professional women whose aim is to improve the Duali­


Clitheroe Soroptimists, who have strong links with the hospital, are expecting the bulbs to blossom in the spring and produce the figure of 75 in their movement’s yellow and


ty of life for other women around the world — usually take spring flowers to the wards every year and help with fund-raising for the hospital. It was felt that an extra display of


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Local president Miss Andrea Barker led a team of fellow Soroptimists and helners in the bulb-planting operation.


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Our picture shows the team in action. Back row, from the left: Mrs Edith T^rri Edith Horsfall, Miss Rose Nutter, Mrs Dorothy Fowler. Front r a S


er, Mrs Melvin Lord and Mrs Dorothy Graham. (CAT 2719)


t o d iT C k Andrea Bark-


flowers in the hospital grounds would be a bonus for visitors, staff and patients manv of whom will be able to see the blooms from ward windows.


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Valley Matters


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a weekly look at ) ■ local issues, people and places ^ = 5


We really have a lot to learn


| g ro v e s o f p a r t - t im e T


Academe. When I heard this, I


I remembered one of the first people I came across when I started work on an


I evening newspaper in I Yorkshire 35 years ago. He | was the driver who took | me out on my first story. I I was extremely nervous I and he was very kind. A I large, comfortable man in his sixties, he asked me what the story was and,


| when I told him, said: “That’s a bit like that situa­


tion in ‘Dombcy and Son’


| when...” He was absolutely right and we found we shared a raging enthusiasm


| for Charles Dickens. I had acquired mine in my last year at university, when I should have been reading history. He had acquired his,


I as a young man, through the | Workers’ Educational Asso­ ciation. He told me that his course


| had been a joy to him ever since. It had never been any use in his working life; that was not why he had done it.


| It had been one of the things I which had informed his life. I That afternoon, it briefly informed mine as well.


I The memory of this gener- I ous man came back when I heard that part time teachers at further education classes


I in the Ribble Valley may be I taking strike action against i Accrington and Rosscndale I College, after the business of I handling their employment was passed over, lock, stock and barrel, to an agency.


, The college told them this was because of “changes in employment law following a


I European Directive”. I don’t know which directive the


i college management cannot cope with, but I do know that part-time work in this coun-


I try is mushrooming and that [ not everyone’s employment


h e re is t ro u b le , not a t t ’mill, but in (h e p e a c e fu l


s I see it


is handled by some profit­ making outfit in Notting­


ham. This process sounds like


“contracting out” to me, one of the mysteries of life under the Conservative Gov­ ernment. How is it cheaper to have something done for you by a company making a profit, rather than employing people yourself? I used to work for a large


corporation, which was not bound to offer parts of its work to tender, as many public bodies are now required by the Government to do. My ex-employers did it to shed workers. They were always being told they employed too many people.


The first to go were the


cleaners, mostly elderly women who had been expected to do their jobs with equipment most house­ wives would have taken straight to the tip. Canteen staff were next to go and the range of services the new contractors were expected to provide was substantially


reduced. Within 12 months, the


women who had put up with cleaning round us and our chaos, and their sisters who had served us good food at all hours, had left the staff. People who had been mem­ bers of the same pension scheme, read the same staff newspaper, were members of the same staff club and been* proud to be employed by the corporation, were working for outside contractors under conditions which they unani­ mously loathed.


The weakest had gone to


the wall, to my and my fellow workers’ shame. We got our just desserts in the end. Many of us were to follow them, either into contracted employment or down the road.


It was the old story of It s


the rich as get’s the gravy, it ’s the poor as gets the blame”, with a reprise of “Blow you Jack, I’m all right”. But nemesis waited for those who thought they


were safe. So now the evening classes


of some of the most enthu­ siastic students in education ore threatened as their teachers try to fend off a move which they see as against the interests of themselves and their stu­ dents. The management’s response to the strike vote was to get an injunction. Did the principal knit one in his office? Or did he spend more of the college s resources on paying lawyers for one which the establish­ ment he leads is turning away students left, right and centre because the new sys­ tem he introduced is not working? If the manage­ ment of an educational establishment can treat its staff like this, what is its vision of education going to


be worth? If this goes on, who would


be available to introduce the modern counterpart of my old friend from Sheffield to the joys of our culture? Some people will say this


kind of reaction to modern management practice is just bleeding-heart liberalism. I would simply ask: How many of them have been on the receiving end of these sweeping “reforms”, without the benefit of golden hand­ shakes or good pensions on early retirement? If they could only imagine what it is like to be someone whose job has been contracted out. But that requires imagina­ tion and empathy, the kind of things stimulated by art, by Dickens, in fact. Tony Cliff'


Anniversary will spring to mind next year-


■ • i R„r,ihni223:il (Classified)


greater contentment. This is, i because it is a case of rich little pt


lw « iCU t lvatl-on of contentment


argely on having simple tastes. It times said that the best things i:


session of riches, is often due to anxieties caused by great possessions being a con­ stant drain on resources for maintenance Credit cards, so easily available, lull their


„^™lk™ay Prove enjoyable anc no need to go too far. Even in ^ h e r , we can wrap up well, pi(


possessors into a false sense of security Those pieces of plastic are a sign of aii unlimited supply of money in the bank’s vaults. People are apt to forget that the only wealth available to them is the amount that remains in the account After wondering what to buy next with an


account in the red, their next thought is what to sett next. Such sales can mean a


loss and very short-term gains. Poor Uttle rich man.


utue


On the other hand, when one remains sol I vent, despite some sacrifice, th £ e t


can bring great pleasure. A good At f h e ^ jessing well worth h; a wPl l .? nd the daV


the fount of so many blessings. to g iv e thanksf^


haveh= m° rT ng *t can be worn have a quiet time with our H Lark “ d'jf, r Usten


GodtSw r e,Sha" rejoice know hand' and take a short s‘ > when we g


^ o o r i f .rnedreStinacomtortafc hW- Pause a while to count (


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