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

Plumbers tools would come in handy.
Do not be af'aid to speak up if yo1 have any.
When the sawmil is going we shall rig
up to cut wood on large scale. 1t takes
pretty fair scale to supply the colony alone
Our friends are increasing in number all
over the country. Now the question Is, VIII
the B c C grow faster than it can be wisely
handled?
AS soon as possible we want to put In
steam to cook with. 1t would be help II
our comrades would send in suggestions about
the best plans and so forth.
A good second hand boiler and engine
can be disposed of to Equality colony. If you
have one write to C. w. Belknap, Equality,
Belfast, Skagit county, Wash.
Who has any planning mill machinery to
trade for life interest in a Socialist commu-
nifty where he can escape the nightmare OF
competition? Write to C. w. Belknap,
Equality.
No man can tell how long it will last but
it will certainly last until we can tell you
what lovely spring weather we are having
now. 1t has been this way off and on for
month. Yet some Fasteners have the gall
to criticise our climate
-''Well, guess | will not need you any
more" Did you ever hear that? If not you
are not wage worker. Anyway we never
hear it in Equality. and never never will.
That grim and gaunt spectre of "Out of
Work" has no place in industrial co-opera-
ton.
-Phirst Phunny Comrade-"What's the
diff. between millionaire and a thief"
Second Phunny Comrade (triumphantlyl-
''Aint any,
P. p. C.-"Yes there is.
S. p. C.-''What. them"
p 2. C.-'About a million dollars.
Mr. VIM. Mccormick of New Whatcom
paid us a visit this week. He is an S. L. 2.
man. and is therefore interested in the politi-
cal aspect of socialism but gives us his good
will and predicts a grand future for us if we
can succeed in exemplifying the spirit of CO.
operation. Thank you, friend we will try.
Many may come and many may GO and
they not only may but do, here. Every day
we entertain someone looking at the first end
of socialism in Equality, and many men have
many minds. for we hear every conceivable
variation of the socialist idea from our visi
tors It's all right to talk, but don't forget to
act.
Our school is coming along quite well. and
we have reason to believe that we will be in
a position by another year to announce that
Equality shall have a school where simple
truth is worshpped and taught without re-
gard to dollars. We have received word from
two prominent educators that they are look
ing this way with the above purpose in view.
People, do not blame if you forget that
this is the first year of the colony and much,
very much rough work must be done before
the comforts of life can be as well provided as
you had them at your homes. If you think
you have the sand" to take hold and help us
work. then come but if the sight of a pillow or
an AK makes you yawn, take that as sign
that you would be out of place here Some
day we hope to have things fixed up so that
we can have even more comforts and luxuries
than the average man enjoys now. and that
too with much less labor and no degradation
But,this all must be worked out. So it is the
worker that is needed first. Not necessarily
the hard worker but the fellow that can get
up in the morning with vim and enthusiasm
and stick to his work. whatever it be, and
consciously do his part of pioneering.