Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
B. 6. G. STEAMBOAT.

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eff you only had a steamboat" We
have heard that remark a thousand
times at headquarters during the last
six months: we have hearu it so often
and from so many persons and sources
that we have concluded that we MUST
have that steamboat.
Reason No. |. The freight trans
portation for the B G G and the colo
nists has cost us directly and indi-
rectly hundreds of dollars, and nearly
every fraction OF that amount has
been lost to our treasury. Had We
owned a boat hundreds of dollars
would have been saved and earned
and added to our eXchequer.
Reason ,. The business of trans
portation on upper Puget sound is
one of the most lucrative of all the
local industries. Tons and thousands
of tons of oats and hay and other pro-
duce are to be transported this fall
and winter from point to point along
this coast, aud the competition in this
graln-carrying trade seems to be eX-
ceedingly slight. Why should not the
B G c get a large share of this re-
munerative business;
Reason 3. We are offered for head
quarters of the b G c at Anacortes-
the shipping and grain-freighting
seaport and center of this section
the use of two commodious build
ings lone for the Offices of the ma
tional board of the b c c, and the
other for INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM and
a three-year lease free of 300 feet
of fine water front. The facilities
offered to us are extremely valuable
and advantageous for our headquar-
tiers, and our use of them would mean
a largely decreased expense for the
b c c. and a largely increased accom-
modation; but we cannot avail our
selves of the water front with ad-
vantage until we have THAT BOAT.
Reason /. Think of the effective
propaganda that b c c steamboat.
bearing the banner of Industrial
Freedom, and plying up and down.
and in and out, and all over the
waters of this magnificent Puget
Sound, must Of necessity accomplish.
What a splendid adjunct to the mis-
sion wagon on land would be the mis-
sion boat upon the sea.
With 500 in the steamboat fund
the b c c could complete arrange
ments for the purchased building of
a suitable boat. Already we have on
our list of b c c members a number of
persons capable of constructing and
running our boat-ship carpenters,
marine engineers, machinists, pilots,
etc All we now need is the money.
If the members of the Brotherhood
want that boat surely there should be
no delay or difficulty about getting it
as soon as the association quickens to
a knowledge of its needs. If every
member of the b c subscribes 80
cents or more to this fund we shall
easily have a sufficient sum to permit
us to procure our steamboat at once.
DO We Want a Boat?
Send us your subscription and your
suggestions.
How the proposition now stands:
b &C Steamboat Fund
Previously Acknowledgements - -
f. II Bramhall. ............ 3 90
Helen j WesCott....... 90. ~
f. Wagenknecht ........... ! 90
TO date, August &c.. S 30 80
The local union or the individual
member that does most to procure for
us the necessary amount to purchase
Our steamboat shall have the priyi-
lege of naming this b G G vessel OF
Socialism.
Send remittances to National Sec
retarv b G G., Edison, Washington.
Bundles of 10 or more to one address