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Suite 500, 29001 Cedar Rd. (at 1-271) Hours by appointment

HELP WANTED

461-6600

Orange Blossom Press is looking for an individual with graphic arts or printing skills to join our print shop collective. We are willing to change our current job divisions in order to find someone who not only possesses particular skills, but who is also politically committed and wants to work in a collective setting.

Possible jobs include typesetting, design/paste-up, camera, stripping, bindery, and business management. We're willing to hear from anyone with any or all (!!??) of the above skills.

Orange Blossom Press, Inc. is a six year old political print shop on the Near West Side. We generally support, in a variety of ways, left wing and feminist grassroots organizations in Cleveland. We also have a large variety of commercial accounts including social service agencies, unions, churches, politicians, businesses, and almost anyone who comes in the door.

The shop is worker-owned and controlled. No "share" or other investments are needed to become a full partner; you don't bring anything into the shop when you join, and you don't take anything when you leave the shop. Recently we bought a building on W. 25th St., which we formed a partnership to purchase. Details have not been worked out as to how a new partner would relate to this. These decisions, like all other major (and some minor) ones, are made by the five partner-workers.

In addition to being a collective, we are a union shop in the Graphic Arts International Union, Local 546. We expect any new partner to join after the union probation period.

A worker collective brings a lot of rewards, but it also takes a lot of commitment and energy. Attending weekly shop meetings is required, and working over 40 hours a week is often necessary. We believe, however, that the extra time needed to run a small business and function as a collective are worth the energy...

If you have the skills, and think you may have the commitment, please write us stating your experience as well as any other relevant information. The deadline for resumes is December 15; we hope to make our choice by the first of the year. Please call us at 651-5701 if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Mark, Joe, Laura, John, Lisa

3701 Lorain Ave.

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Woman Works for Freeze (continuzd from page 7)

the bus to a borin temporary bank job (which I'd been asked to ta'e permanently and just turned down, having learned my lesson at the hospital), Į opened some mai sent by the Freeze office. An arti cle. "Nuclear Madness," by Dr. Helen Caldicott, was included. By 8 a.m., on the Detroit-Superior bridge, I had finished reading it and tears were streaming down my face. She was talking to me as a woman and a doctor; As a woman, she had nursed her babies as I had mine. I realized not only were my own three children's lives and future endangered, but in a nuclear war, all the children of the world faced the possibility of instant death--or slow, painful death by radiation poisoning. I knew that my anger and tears could be channeled only one way-by my own action. I refused to stand by any longer, helplessly watching and wondering what the future. would bring. It was time for me to try and stop the madness.

I went to the "Guns or Butter" conference a few days later. At the workshop was a Freeze table and 1 signed up as a volunteer. I vowed I would volunteer at least two weeks full-time as soon as my bank assignment was over, then look for another paying job and do Freeze work part-time. Instead I stayed on as a full-time volunteer at the Freeze office for three months. The coordinator could certainly use my help and I was learning how to run a small office as I worked for a cause I believed in. In time, I made myself indispensable.

Now I'm the permanent part-time paid staffer for the Cleveland Freeze office. Three months of volunteering for the Freeze and over four months of working for "movement" wages are behind me. Without skills, honest enthusiasm, hard work, long hours, a sincere interest in helping to involve new people and a firm commitment to the ideal of a nuclear-weapons-free world, I wouldn't have this job. My job has its pressures-deadlines, unpredictable days, detail work, never-ending lists of things to do, almost impossible goals and a high potential for burn-out.

But I also have the chance to practically create my

wwn ideal job, work toward goals I really believe in, aid feel support from like-minded groups and perons. I've worked on a variety of tasks, including Cleveland's Issue 5 civil defense issue, registering ›w-income voters through "Project Vote,” starting a Southwest Suburbs group in my own area, and being, responsible for collecting and counting our Nuclear Weapons Freeze petitions from the entire state of Ohio: I've also begun to work with other Freeze workers to reach out to people for whom hunger, unemployment and other problems are more real and terrifying than the threat of nuclear holocaust.

Also, since I seem to be drawn to interesting lowpaying jobs, I've been changing my attitude toward money. Movement wages can't match what I'd make at the hospital or the bank, but for me the job is more important than the salary. It's difficult to lower my standard of living after 23 years of marriage, but I've been enjoying "the search" for good used clothing and cutting my own hair. And there is still my fruit and vegetable garden.

There are always new challenges, but as I've moved from a full-time homemaker into my new role with the Freeze, I've gradually gained confidence in my own judgment and abilities. I can do things I once thought impossible. I've passed Chemistry with a B (after having no math since high school), done waltz jumps on figure skates, given the statewide petition. count and a short talk before a crowd in front of the Ohio Statehouse, and appeared on television. I keep on trying and improving. I'm learning to take criticism and even encourage it in order to improve my own performance. I've been blessed with an understanding, helpful husband who has changed along with me. I've learned to accept each day's challenge and not panie when doing something difficult for the first time or having to meet a deadline.

I feel useful, needed in the world outside my family. I'm too busy to be concerned with my gradual aging. I've met wonderful people who sustain me and uplift me. And I'm learning to reach higher and higher by not giving in to fears of failure.

NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY

December 31 at The Civic 3130 Mayfield Rd.

in Cleveland Heights