Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-24

Pour out your life in a lal or for all man.
kind. This is the road that leads to the knowl-
edge of the real self.
The sawmill men have completed the
'bull Wheel" and they pull logs into the mill
by engine power. This is great saving over
the old way of rolling them in with can't
hooks.
Take log out of the house! Bro. Ed.
Pelton has got him good pair of boots. He
is so mindful of the colony's needs and stingy
with its money that he slops around in any
old pair of leakv shoes in all sorts of weather
But some strong minded and hard-muscled
socialists have no doubt caught Pelton in
snare and shod him as blacksmith shoes an
unwilling brocho That's the only way you
can handle Pelton.
Single men and small families are prefer
red here this winter We are yet in the pio-
neer stage of our growth and some hardships
must be endured for several months. Even
in the well regulated affairs of the capitalist,
his business often moves at snails pace, and
how much more is it excusable here that
we cannot possibly get things in shape as fast
as we want or thought we could. We are not
opposing families coming in, but if it is just
as convenient for them, large families would
better wait till spring. Any old thing is good
enough for an old batch, so he can come as
rapidly as he likes
We are getting reliable information that
very many people are intending to come to
Equality in the spring. This is very welcome
to, otnp
endeavor But there is serious side to it.
Last spring we used to get twenty and thirty
a week and were almost driven insane to find
corners to put them in or work that they
could do to advantage. Now this must not
be repeated this year if it can possibly be
avoided. We suggest to those who contem-
plate coming to send in their fee or a portion
of it. so we can give them comfortable quar-
tiers and place to work. The cry here on all
sides is for machnery-you will see the rea-
son and re-echo it when you come-and we
can only put up workshops as we have the
means to do So This is an exceedingly i'm
portant matter and should be carefully con-
sidered If you can possibly do so, put in
your fee, or a part of it, this winter, and state
what you can best work at. We want to make
it easy for you as well as ourselves.
A beloved comrade who has greatly as
sisted Equality colony writes between the
lines that we do not have it all lovely here.
Now, dear brother, do you have to go between
the lines? Do we not say in the lines that we
are making the same kind of fight for a
place in the universe as every other thing
does We cannot and should not succeed on
any other than the light lines, and we have
often told you all in print that we had to work
hard and do without many things we were
used to at home, and that some few of the
people who come here are not yet evolved up
to the plane of cooperation. We have said
that many times. In fact, we believe that
this Equality colony has come nearer telling
exact conditions under which it is laboring
than ever was done before. People allow
themselves to form an illumined picture of a
heavenly state here and then blame us when
they don't find it. But let us be emphatic.
The germ of success is here. We believe
that with all our might. Little hindrances
there are, but that is so with everything that
is important. Comrades the future is ours:
never doubt that
We have received a very sensible and help
ful letter from q member OF tne ID ! y IN lllV-
erside, California, suggesting that local
unions be allowed to fix any dues they please
that are equal to or greater than the amount
named in the national constitution, and that
as they accumulate fund they can pay for
membership for one of their number, send
him on and let him help to make room for
others to follow. This is certainly a practi-
cal and valuable suggestion and is within the
meaning of our laws. In fact we have had
several just such cases. So we say ''God
speed" brothers. The little that each would
pay in would be very small; probably equal
to tho ordinary lodge dues, and yet lifetime
employment would be secured thereby.
But we must he understood in this matter.
We will vote upon each one as he applies for
admission into Equality colony. Not every
one can get in here. But in case one was re-
iected, others could be sent until one was ac-
cepted. Or in the very improbable case that
no one thus named was accepted the colony
would pay back the fee.