Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
Hay hauling continues.


many of the socialists in Equality.
The Thursday evening singing school is
faithfully and our vocal music is i'm
proving.
We have some fine mechanics here and
will need more when we get some more ma
chinery going.
When the land cleaners strike tree too
big to saw they just pile a lot of rubbish
around it and burn it down.
-Comrade Randolph resigned as superin-
tcndent of the department of public works,
and Bro. n. J. Olsen was elected.
Never has there been greater harmony
in Equality than for the last six or eight
weeks, nor have we ever been so hopeful.
We can make use of more chickens: 500
of them wouldn't hurt. a good socialist
poultry man can pay his way in Equality that
way.
Self government is an art to be learned
by actual participation. and that is why we
shall expect so much from our own efforts in
that direction.
The shoemakers are busy keeping the
people here shod. A cooperative shoe is bet
ter and much cheaper than competitive
system outside.
We are not able to supply any barrels for
the trade at present. We need all Bro. Irish
can make. Here is a good place for cooper
who is a socialist
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be received on membership fees. But do not
apply unless you are really socialist and
possess the cooperative spirit.
The political activity of the present cam
paign does not slight even Equality. We
have had both populists and socialists with
their burning words of exhortaton to the
people. Think and not die.
We do not expect perfect peace and quiet.
but expect difficulties and changes to arise in
our future career We now have confidence
to believe that we shall be able to meet and
overcome all obstacles in the way of our
progress.
We have been trying to keep the clerical
work minimized as well as possible so as to
give more time to physical labor but the work
of Secretary Belknap was so overgrown that
we had to give him an assistant. Bro Ran
dolph fills the place evenings.
Search all over and you will not find peo-
pie who are buster than we pioneers. Nine
hours and more day for actual work, then
little sociability and then a meeting or some
committee work for humanity, and the time
and strength is given gladly
The townsite clearers are hauling logs to
what is now the centre of the town, TO be
sawed up for wood. 1t is a sight to see the
school boys tackle them with saws and axes,
and besides working off some of their surplus
energy, provide the colony with fuel
The diningroom is a pretty tight fit
for the large number of comrades fed
there. All the kitchen and diningroom
workers are over pushed in their cramped
places, but the pressure will be removed just
as soon as lumber is sawed to do the building.
There was lull in the subscriptions to
the donkey engine. fund this week. Let us
stay with it boys for a few weeks longer. 1t
is nearly within our grasp. Some of the COM
rades here at Equality have doubled their
original amounts. If there are any others
who feel that they can afford to do so it would
very much hasten the time when we will pull
monster logs through the woods pretty much
as you would a stick of stove wood across a
room with string tied to it.
The Lyceum is now we'll on its feet. Last
Sunday Bro. Burgess spoke on THE Voice of
Labor" and Mrs. Sarah Ward Temple fol-
lowed on the same subject. A quartette and
the orchestra furnished excellent music. Miss
Edith Burgess gave a recitation. Questions
from the audience and answers from the two
speakers and Bros. Hoffman and Randolph
with FIVE minutes each made up the evenings
entertainment. a discussion between two
comrades is to be arranged for soon.
Some of our outside friends write us say
ing if there is anything they can do to help us
let them know. Well then, brothers, we
take you at your word, you can get more
subscribers for Industrial Freedom, circulate
our literature, generally help a little in the
machinery fund, and last but by no means
least you can live and be socialist in your
own city and thus 10y your own personal char
acter, show to the world that socialists are
not the sort of bloodthirsty outlaws the sub
sidized press try to make out
Our machinery fund should be kept in
mind constantly. 1t is growing every day
slowly but surely. and it is easy to see
that it is to be one of the most important fac
tors in the building MP of the B c c.
Nv means of this fund we have already rot