Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-26
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in Equality. How is it down in your town,
brother wage slave?
The sloop Progress is now used in carry
ing freight and Equality passengers to and
from New Whatcom, while the roads are so
muddy.
Bro. Denis Mccoy has the care of Equal
ity colony at nights. He guarantees that no
property will be stolen nor houses burned
while he is on watch.
1t used to be ''sinlz or swim: survive or
perish, and the weak must 60 TO the WALL
Now it is organize or be slaves; cooperate or
starve and socialists go on top.
The mechanics are still setting line shafts
and pullevs and all sorts of things at the saw
mill. They expect to have the paner going,
also the single mill, in a short time.
Life in pioneer colony is no picnic, yet
with all the discomforts our people seem to
get more solid pleasure to the square inch
than anywhere it has been our lot to dwell.
The correspondence in Equality colony is
very large, and all who write to us should en-
close a stamp. This is easy for each, and
would stop large leak in our colony treas
ury.
r Little Jennie Boyd died on the 18th of
November. She had been suffering from
consumption and sick several months. She
was buried in our little graveyard across the
railroad track.
Bro. MITCHELL old George and Pete, and
the greys, are shaking in the logs to the mill
in good shape, but Abe and his team won't
be in it when the mule engine gets here, and
it is on the way.
Next week will see Equality's first expor-
tation from the agricultural department..
Ten barrels of sauer kraut will he shipped to
Seattle. This enables us to get some of our
groceries without cash.
Bro. Davis is growing more and more
popular-or at any rate his bread is, not only
with us but with the philistines round about
who have heard of it and keep him humping
himself to supply the demand.
We are still hauling cabbage. Bad roads
and rain makes this about the worst job in
Equality, but Bros. Dow and Elliott have the
requisite amount of stamina to keep the cab
bage on the move from the field to the barn.
The ducks on Puget Sound know as well
when Sunday comes as a Methodist preacher.
The infdel neighbors and a few of our COM
rades who have no other time, take that day
to salute them with Johnnie get your gun"
Bro Yokey and Aust Bros. are turning
out genuine full stock, boots and shoes, for
Equalityites, that will outwear any factory
competitive made shoe in America. No in
centive to put on paper solos, like Uncle
Sans contractors did for the boys in blue.
"A ''beautiful snow" the first this year,
fell Saturday night, about three inches deep,
and was glad surprise to everyone Sunday
morning. The boys, old boys as well as young,
could not resist battle at snow ball, and as
soon as breakfast was over thick and fast the
white missiles few. The ground being warm
its stay was decidedly transtory.
The new saw mill chews up the big cedar
logs in a way that makes one smile, and when
one OF the saws gets unruly we take it off the
shaft and give it good pounding and it don't
cost us $40 like it used to, for we have a man
who knows how to do the job right in the
HILL. Inc hill crew are nuSlleGS. lUCy
ought to be, for the foreman is Savage.
oh, for laundry machinery. Our wives
and daughters are true blue to stay with the
washing, with the facilities we have and not
complain. The wash house is cold, damp,
uncomfortable place to work in, bat we know
it will not last long. The old boiler will soon
be fixed up and steam laundry with nice
warm dry house will take the place of the
present one.
Bros. DeWolfe and Marquart run on to
half grown bear out at the edge of the clear
ing this week, and Chris says he would have
killed it with his AK if Mark had shooed it
around the tree so he could his it. But Mark
says he didn't think bears would shoe, and
then he didn't know but there were more
than one, in fact he thought the woods were
full OF bears just at that time.
In description of our new industrial sys-
tenn published recently in the columns of In
dustrisl Freedom it was inadvertently left
out that the 81 weekly charge for board APP
piled only to those above IS years Of age.
Some of our comrades have written James
Sticken letters under the impression that
they would have to pay board for small child
rem. But not so. Children are not only ex-
empt from that provision but draw a small al
lowance in addition.
F2rA slight misunderstanding has arisen in
regard to the machinery fund. Subscribers
were told that if they did not choose to place