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

OP Darr ......................... 100 90
Total. ...................... .SS93 %
In writing to colonists please enclose a
stamp.
We are clearing a place for larger
chicken house.
We need some more COWS; will take them
on a membership fee.
Equality library should not be forgotten
by those who can spare any good books.
Cooperation is in the air-we hear of
other colonies starting. Good! Keep it up,
comrades.
A good bee man with some bees can hear
of something to his interest by applying to
our bureau of correspondence.
We have received the last lot of fittings
necessary to the setting up of our sawmill
and will now be saving right away quick.
Wish it were possible to print all the mes
sages of hope and good cheer we are daily
receiving from our brethren in the states.
We live too near donkey engines-at
Jamison's logging camp-to be satisfied to
carry logs on our shoulders or pull stumps
with pair of forceps
1t has been asked if we at Equality are
taking qy part in politics. Notyet We in
tend to , ait until we have some votes and
then look 0ut for something to ''drap.'
Our Labor Union brother, we invite you
20 a study of Equality colony, and request
YOU 10 report to your union the contrast be-
tween wage slavery and fraternal co-opera-
tion.
We have at last received large bill of
goods from the East that we sent for some
time ago. Our sewing department will be
buster than ever making clothes and under
wear.
The vocal music school meets every
Thursday evening at the school house Music
hath charms, you know, and it is recognized
as just as necessary to life as bread. We have
competent teacher.
All those intending to come to Equality
should always notify the secretary of the
probable time of their arrival and the num-
Der in family. Bring your bedding if possible,
and be sure to come to Belfast
MI. Jeremiah 1etefef OF New w nducON
paid visit to the colony on Friday He open
ed his eyes at the amount of improvements
already made and thinks we are the boys who
can build a Socialist city if it can be done.
In the ironing groom situated about 100 #.
in front of Fort Bethany, our log kitchen and
diningroom, are a score of busy women day in
and day out. Wish we had some laundry ma
chinery. But that's just what we will have
soon. and don't you forget it,
Z Isn't it blessing to be entirely free from
the pest of a daily paper with its sable batch
of fresh lies, served at the table each morn
ing to glut the appetite of the demon within.
What little they print that is really true, we
get when it is verified. Principles concern
us more than ''news"-so called.
Good strong minds and true hearts are
helping us with their sympathy and good will.
We can almost feel the benign influence of
the uplifting impulse and count it as one of
the most blessed privileges We enjoy in the
work of beginning industrial cooperation. As
when Caesar fell you and fell down" so if
We here at Equality can rise. can actually
materialize the principles for which we con-
tend. so will all men be lifted up.
We do not want something for nothing
Those who have any sort Of an idea that We
overstate things here at Equality should,
where at all possible, come and see for them
selves before making application for member
ship. If you do not like the prospects then
you will save yourselves a appointment. No
one should come here without doing all he
can to investigate before he starts. Equality
should and must 20 down if il cannot stand
the strain of the strictest inquiry.
There is no demand for labor-oh no. not
where every natural resource is monopolized
and the competitive spirit is going about as a
roaring lion seeking whom he may crush TO
powder. OF course there is no demand for
labor under such insane conditions. Cunning
tricks of trade the business lie, political
manipulation, huge deals, all these are in de-
mand and pay much better than labor. But
consider place where justice and brotheri-
ness are the basic ideas and where everyone
gets the comforts Of life by actually creating
them from natures storehouse Of raw mate
rial and the demand for labor is limited only
to human needs and desires. Take look at
Equality, you who believe that ancient lie.
where the work is fairly aching TO get itself
sdone and you will pause for second thought.