Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-23

Bro. Robert Young is making hay
for an earth owner near by.
-Comrade Randolph is putting up
a tent 16X24 near the school house.
The vegetables in our garden are
growing so fast you can hear them
grunt.
We are smacking our lips over
some money turned in by Brother Pc
terson.
Watch the "Sawmill Fund" grow
and help make it grow. This is your
fight as well as ours.
Mrs. Carey Lewis is away on a
visit to her brother. She will return
in about two weeks.
Our purchasing agent laid in a
large supply of beans. In him we
live, move and have our bein's.
Our library is growing by the gen.
erous aid of our outside friends. We
are finding use for all our books.
When wage workers build house
it belongs to someone else: when we
at Equality build anything it is our
own.
Brothers Cochran and Davis are
working like beavers on the new bake
oven. 1t is being made from Equality
clay.
There is no debt, no profit, no
usury, no rent to pay in Equality.
We work for and not against each
other. 4
Mr.. A. B. Carleson of Bozeman,
Montana, has given us an excellent
plan for burning stumps. Good boy.
Glad you thought of us.
We are about to enter into one
of the hugest prune deals-300 tons
to dry on the shares. 1t has not yet
| been said of us that we are full of
prunes, but it may be in order pretty
shortly.
Let the ''mudsills" remember that
carpenters. timers, brickmakers, tan
ners and most other mechanics can
find home at Equality if they can
comply with the socialistic require
ments of membership.
"A fire occurred in house on one
of our leased pieces of land 1t was
occupied by Bro. Stewart. He saved
nearly all of his goods, but the house
went. Comradc Stewart has moved
to the Hatchery" on the lie Wis place
near Edison.
The writer of this has spent his
life in labor union and reform meet
ings. and can truthfully say that the
meetings at Equality are away ahead
of any of them in order. decorum and
good will. Not that we are perfect,
but progressing.
Mr.. George r. Moore of Califor-
MIA, who is here investigating us, is
helping on some job work in the
printery. Most people who come
here roll up their sleeves, spit on their
hands and go to work. The example
we set is contagious.
! We have a member here who is a
practical draughtsman and architect.
He will draw you plan for a house,
on new and original lines. or any of
the prevailing styles, and superin-
tend its construction. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Charges to socialist col
onies, nothing. Charges to parties on
the outside, just enough to make
them see the advantage of being on
the inside.
Machinery is an organizer 1t
causes a worker to be punctual or it
will inconvenience his fellows and
they VIII make it unpleasant for him.
Machinery executes vast quantities
of work and so encourages the work.
ers. There is a whir and buzz about
machinery that stimulates to action.
Machinery is the socialists friend.
We want more machinery. What
can you afford TO subscribe? Or can
you afford not to sub cribe?
Our little quarter acre patch of
garden, cleared and cultivated by
Bro. Beel. railroad blacksmith from
Chicago, is looking Just splendid: cab
bage and potatoes especially fine and
enough of them to do a small family
year, with hundredso of hills of string
beans. Radishes and lettuce galore
and a healthy lot of turnips and to.
= matoes, and a beautiful variety OF
flowers to give beauty TO our tables,
all credited to the energy of Comrade
Beel.
The more we see of this state the
r more grounded we are in the conyic.
tion that we chose wisely TO here
} usher in the CO-Oneratiye Cannon.