Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-05-07
asked and answered.
John Johnson's Questions and Our
REPLIES

Our very numerous Nollco.'oiiN'Ni'''
John johnson, Everywhere +. o., y. >.
A.. is asking us thousand and one
questions about the Brotherhood and
Equality colony and the town OF Edison
and the State of Washington and other
cognate topics in which all our three
thousand members are interested. In
order that each of our thousand and one
correspondents may get the benefit OF
whatever information we possess, we
publish some of the questions that the
secretary receives, together with our
replies
|. What is the address of the ma
tional headquarters?
Ans. Edison, Skagit county, WASH
ington.
>. Where is the colony situated?
Ans. The first B. c. c. colony is sit
uated at Equality Edison postoffice),
Skagit county, Washington, three miles
from Edison.
3. How can reach Equality?
Ans. Belfast. our nearest railroad sta
ton. is on the line of the Great North
ern railway, five or six miles from Edi-
son. A stage from Edison meets the
north bound train at Belfast daily, about
noon: the stage fare is 80 cents, or four
bits, in the local lingo. Persons COM
ING over a route other than the Great
Northern, may ticket to Seattle and
transfer to Great Northern depot, tick
citing there to Belfast: or they may
come by steamer from Seattle to New
Whatcom Is miles from Edison. and
thence reach Edison by way of Belfast
over the Great Northern southbound
train. or take steamer May Queen
Whose trips depend on tides and are in
consequence irregular)from New What
com to Edison wharf.
4. What is your nearest express
Office?
Ans. Belfast, Washington.
S. Who are the national officers of
the B. G.. c., and where do they re-
side?
Ans. President, Rev. Myron w.
Reed. Denver, Colorado: Secretary, n.
w. Lermond, Edison, Skagit county,
Washington: Treasurer. Miss Helen
M. Mason, Edison: Organizer, Rev. Geo.
Candee, 1917 Detroit avenue, Toledo,
Ohio: Dean, Professor Frank Parsons,
Boston. Mass: Editor, Rev. w. H.
Kaufman, Edison Master Workman,
Chas. H. Swigart, Edison: Distributor,
E. f. Nolan, Edison.
6. Are you now taking in members
who wish to be allowed to work out
their membership fee in the colony?
Ans. We are not now in a position
to receive any into colony membership.
that have not the $3.50 fee in cash. We
trust that we shall soon be in position
to accept ALL good Socialists, and
to allow them to pay their fee in
cooperative labor in Equality or some
other colony of the B. c. c.: but at
present our resources are too limited to
permit us to be as liberal as we would
like to be.
!. have an aged mother, a wife,
and three children: will the payment
of one fee of one hundred and sixty dol
lars admitall of us?
Ans. Yes; the payment of a single
full membership fee admits to member
ship at Equality all those who properly
constitute one family. But where there
are any adults in the family. other than
the husband and wife, and they are
able to pay the fee, it is expected that
they shall do so.
s. Is the colony publishing paper?
Ans. The national organ of the
Brotherhood is being published at Edi-
son. and is called INDUSTRIAL
FREEDOM =: the colony as such is not
publishing paper but it is fully rep
resented in the Brotherhood paper.
We should like our readers of this
first number of the B. G. G. journal. to
let us know whether THEY think We
ARE publishing paper, and, incident
ally, to tell us what they think about
THEIR paper.
| ~ w ilAb - NOul Icll4 ION dl FpudllLN,
and do you have religious exercises
Ans. The colony has no religion: in
this it is strikingly similar to the United
States, which government. also, is not
a religious body. Some of the mem
bers of Equality community have a
denominational religion, and others
have not: but the colony as such does
not deal in denominations, the fullest
freedom in matters of dogma and creed
being left to every individual When
ever any of the individual members
wish to follow any form of religious
worship, they are at liberty as indi-
, viduals and in the same manner as citi-
zens of the United States throughout
the country to follow their own private
convictions in their own private affairs.
We have no religious question here.
any more than we have Il dress oues-
tiOn or a diet question