Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-05
Bro. Pelton is helping Bro.- Irish make

A vegetable house is another valuable adj
dition to our cuisine depart nent. 1t is adj
joining the kitchen.
-Comrade Willig, the kraut maker, is up
to his elbows in shaved cabbage. Rows OF
barrels of kraut is the outcome
No rent in Equality, no interest, no
profit, no idleness, no poverty, no wage slav-
cry, brother. Do you catch on?
The public works department is making
skid road from the townsite to the sawmill,
which is situated in the low land.
We voted this week by ballot on the
question of building another apartment house
or separate cottages. The latter carried.
Bro. Carl wicker of CORVALLIS, Oregon,
has remembered us by sending two books
printed in German. Thanks comrade, do it
again.
Equality colony"is making cooperative
history. Our life should be measured by
deeds, rather than by the recurrence of so
many moons.
Intending emigrants should bear in mind
that although it rains good deal it is very
largely in the night leaving the day availa-
bic for work.
Bro. Herr of Oregon, who was here last
summer to look at U.S. has returned for good.
He is a logger and will have no difficulty in
finding job among us socialists.
Mrs Wilcox of Lawrence, Wash, gave
Equality most favorable notice in one of the
Whatcom papers, and presented our library
with choice selection of books besides.
The bureau of corresponds ice is out of the
Equality prospectuses, but another one will
soon be written, more up to date, and with
which our outside friends will be supplied.
7 Bro. John G. Otis of Topeka, Kan. writes
us that he is arranging his business affairs to
come out to the colony and help socialze the
grand state of Washington, and furnish his
own.milk and butter.
There is a wrong impression about oul
climate. We propose shortly to publish the
official statistics for this end of the state of
the proportion of sunny and cloudy days,
amount of rainfall, etc.
The sawmill is now running and the car
penters are dancing jig at the prospects of
plenty of material to keep them humping
themselves henceforth and forever. The cpl
sode of Alladin's palace may not be repeated
here, but we will not miss it much
Tho partitions in the school house
were removed and quite large stage
built for use on our anniversary. This is now
be fixed 50 that we can remove the partitions
whenever we choose to, and this gives us a
much better place for our public meetings.
Bro Lee and family from Texas are now
members of Equality colony. He takes hold
of work without gloves and seems bent on
giving the best powers of his being to aid in
working out the brotherhood of man on the
material plane. 1t is indeed grand privi-
lege to be in position to help in such an up
lifting. A fraternal hand clasp is given to
Bro. Lee and those like him.
The prospectus Of the Niksur magazine
lies before us. This magazine is to be de-
voted to school of the principles of social
ism, and especially to the dissemination of CO.
operative information. Thus you see our
movement is gathering strength, power, mo-
mentum, and must soon sweep away all oppo-
sition. The Niksur will be published in
Minneapolis, Mimi. by the Niksur Co-opera-
tive Association.
Our subsistence department has as yet
received very little notice in proportion to its
magnitude and Importance, in our colony
notes. There is no small amount of labor con-
nected with preparing and cooking the food
for 300 people, especially with pioneer facili-
ties Mrs. Odell, the present superintendent,
has the required executive ability to keep
every division working in order and perfect
harmony.
There are twelve girls and six women en-
ployed in the kitchen and diningrooms. The
girls attend school six hours day and wait
on the tables besides, and do it we'll The
cooks get up at o'clock a. m. to prepare
breakfast. and it is o'clock at nj ght when
the lights are out in the dining rooms. The
cooks are now working on three shifts, but
the girls as walters work every day, and are
happy and free as the birds in the woods
Our young people, with few exceptions, rea-
lie that the success of this movement de-
ponds upon every one dong his or her duty
and in them is our hope TO realize our ideal
socialists of the future. One man helps to
lift the large heavy vessels about the range
and one washes the large dishes and pumps
the water into the heater. The vegetables
and fruit are ell prepared by the women.
The laundry is also in this department. and
all the washing and ironing is done by our
women with the aid of only two men. Our
women also take care of the bachelors quar-