Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-03

We have lost as few days from work as
would be the case in Illinois for the same
time.
celes. California, has been voted member
of Equality.
Bro. Olson resigned as superintendent of
public works and Bro. Harmon was elected
to fill the office.
Bro. and Sister Odell asks leave of alb
sence from Equality for time. They will be
missed very much.
We have an increase Of five in our family.
Bro. Jolly had the sows bed fixed comfortable
and she raised them all.
Carpenters who can comply with our fra
ternal requirements of membership can find
a steady job at Equality colony.
Bros. Ohlberg and Olson have gone to
Snohomish to take job for the rest of the
winter. They will be badly missed
BRO. Hoffman went to his farm in Oregon
to stay this winter. He will return in the
spring. Awtully sorry to have him go.
Instead of worryingI for work we here
wonder how in the sam hill we can get the
immense amount of work done. No hunting
for job in this.
Who has failed to make living by run
ming laundry in competition? We will buy
you out or take you in out of the cold, if you
are good co-operator
Bro Conrad J. Schoen of Dayton, Ohio,
donated some date palm and German fig seed.
Such little attentions are always appreciated
by the colonists. We will send Bro. Schoen
some fruit when it ripens.
We have plenty of saw timber" here in
the west, in fact we are simply buried in it,
and the only way out is to work it up into
furniture and sash and doors. We have the
market and must have the factory.
More friends The Silver X-Ray, pop
ulist paper published in Rosenberg, Texas,
prints a letter from our comrade r. G.. Lee,
on Equality colony. The editors name is G..
B. Lang. They'll all come around yet.
We would like to correspond with per-
sons having wood working machinery. such
as moulding machines. band saws, turning
lathes. panel rasers, boring machines, etc.
write to C. w. Belknap. Belfast Wash
Mr.. W. E. Warren and family of Oregon,
are here and are going to become partners in
this socialist concern. He says if we don't
vote him in he will climb the hill and roll
rocks down on US. We will take him in.
J. F. Drabek has been in Equality colony
for some time looking up our chances for final
i, ! i, ,l,,+
his Nebraska home, he bids us adeau in full
confidence that Equality will yet triumph
over all obstacles.
Mrs. r. S. Jones of San Francisco, Cal,
has made Equality colony library magnif-
cent donation. A big box OF reform maga-
throughout the country. 1t is written that
we cannot live by the bread and meat side of
life alone, and this intellectual feast will fill
long felt want. We want to build up good
library here, and such gifts as Mrs. Jones go
far to help bring it about
Not all that comes to Equality colony will
be satisfied. All are called but few chosen.
I've seen that before somewhere. Any well
regulated mind will readily see that this
movement Will autfdcu people vi varying ue-
grees of intelligence and of many ideas of
what it means Those who come from any
other motive than a deep and intelligent con-
viction that a new order of society must and
can be made, will not have the stability of
purpose and strength of soul to persist in pio-
neer work. We, here on the ground, expect
ID get PEG pie in who will not stay in, and we
have screwed our courage up to stand the an
noyance that such people cause. There is no
infallibe mark on people IS foreheads by which
we can pick ont the true socialists and trial
must be given to ell who appear to be elig-
BILE. We say this because we have no inten-
tion of exhibiting the light and shutting off
the shadows of Equality colony. We arc
welded to the truth and shall proclaim it
though ''all earth's system crack"
EaS@A slight misunderstanding has arisen in
regard to the machinery fund. Subscribers
were told that if they did not choose to place
their amounts in the fund to be drawn back
according to the printed agreement, then
they could have it credited on their mem
berahip fees. But this must not be con-
strued to mean that the installment on a fee
must then be used in the machinery fund.
All membership fees received here, as such,
will be used to our best judgment: but sub
scriptions to the machinery fund so specified
and not credited on membership fees will of
course be strictly used for machinery and
maid hack accordinc- to agreement