Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-27
u, Il IL II II i: II u. i; ii ii i
The carpenters are taising the
barn. Big? Why it's a monster.

barn. Big? Why it's monster!
Saturday night was the regular
night for our social hop. 1t was a sue
cess as usual.
The cabinet makers are making
bookcase for our library. Our
friends have blessed us with quite a
generous donation of books, and we
must have a nice place for them.
Those paying on the machinery
fund can have their amounts credited
on membership fee if they so notify
Denis Mccoy. But of course in that
case the money would not be repaid,
as provided for in the contract.
Contributions to the machinery
fund are coming in in very satisfac-
tory shape. Our brothers realize that
it is all for them as we'll as for those
at the front, and are doing well in
getting us started with machinery.
Let the good work keep up.
The burning of the slashing was
a decided success. In places it burn
ed everything clean. The job of piling
the large sticks that did not burn,
into large piles and then burning
them has begun. 1t is awfully dirty
work, but it's given freely for social
ism.
Several women of Equality have
volunteered to go into the kitchen
and thus allow the men to be availa-
BILE for outside work. This is a deed
of heroism, as the work in. the kitch-
en- is of the heaviest and most exact
ing sort. We long for the time when
the gentler sex can be treated as
such and not made to work as autom-
atoms.
We didn't get off with the burn
ing of the slashing quite as easy as
we thought we had. The hill caught
fire and came back on the town by a
change of the wind and caused us to
do some tall fighting. And speaking
of fighting fire, what would a western
prairie man think if you said: sect
a pick and shovel and come and fight
firem But that's the way we do it
here.
The earnest reformer is trying to
decide which way is best to dislodge
capitalism, the political or industrial.
We of the B c C take up both. Then
we certainly can't miss it A series
of colonies allows the displaced work.
ers to support themselves and so many
of them coming into one state makes
it easy to note their ideas into reali-
cation, beginning first with small
county offices and gradually taking
the entire state government. We
don't intend to hug to our own bosoms
the benefits of cooperation. We ex-
pect to ditfuse it to all. Even the OPP
posing minority will be blessed by our
co-opera i've laws, by state-owned
railroads doing business for the peo-
pie at cost. Mines, electric plants,
steamboats,, all these will come under
public ownership by means of a
straight. political program when the
right time comes.
Some of our friends appear to
think that since Equality has secured
autonomy its members have aband-
oned the idea of other colonies. This
is a great mistake. Autonomy is
merely change in the details of a
plan that we favor as much as anyone
possibly could. We repudiate the re-
Election that we are one colony peo-
Pile. The Cooperative Common
wealth cannot come by any one colo
ny plan. Our idea is that there
should be great caution used in start
ing colonies, as good conditions as to
land, location, means, worthy men,
bers, ETC., are absolutely necessary to
the success of colony. When these
can be had, by all means let us have
them, but not before. Equality colo
ny will be self-supporting probably in
a very few months, and as soon as
surplus can be squeezed out of our
labor we propose to back any colony
that can make a reasonable show of
success.
BRO. Williams is pouring out his
life and love on the miniature social
lists of Equality. Bro. Williams does
not profess to be a regular kinder
garten teacher, but he has had con-
siderable experience as school teacher
and takes hold of his work with the
skill of an old hand. He rings the
bell at $50 in the morning, and in
a few moments he has about Is little
tots who are amused and instructed
by easy methods, while the evolving of
the real inner nature is the primary
object rather than suffing the little
defenseless ones with the most COM
plete schemes of robbing their broth