Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-08
The Machinery Fund.


the pioneers at the front with the ne
cessary machinery to enable them to
clear land, build houses and roads
and to carry on factories for making
most of the things we would use. a
grand start has been already made.
Over 81, 300 has been paid in. a large
substantial sawmill capable of cut
ting 10000 feet of lumber in Il day
has been paid for and is now being set
up. We have shingle mill of about
q, 900 to 10000 capacity per day.
We who are on the ground here and
are therefore in a position to know
the facts and conditions claim that
these two machines are the basis of a
living for the whole colony. Just as
soon as they can be put to work and
their products disposed of, we then
can apply, in a great measure, the
membership fees to the purchasing OF
other necessary machines and I'M
provements needed to make our Ia
Dor effective. 1t is poor economy Tor
us in the colony to spend our time
working by methods that our grand
fathers laid aside, all for the lack OF
necessary tools.
More particularly is this western
country demanding machinery. The
tim Der is so big-our eastern friends
cannot realize what this means with
out seeing our forests-the stumps
are so enormous and the industries
all around us being carried on by
larger capital and machinery, that
we of the Brotherhood are simply
''not in it" without the cooperation
of natures untiring forces, steam and
electricity. With machinery, we, by
cooperation have a decided advant-
age: without it we will never be able
to solve the industrial problem that
it is the mission of the B G G to
solve.
Now we have the sawmill and shin
gle mill, but THESE MUST BE SUPPLE
MENTED BY A DONKEY ENGINE TO
MAKE THEM AVAILABLE.
Now what is a donkey engine:
en- eastern brother asks. 1t is port
able engine of varying power accord
ing to the kind of work to do, going
up into perhaps a hundred horse
power or even more, and is moved
about in the woods to clear land, pull
stumps and drag immense logs to
sawmill. From five to ten logs are
hitched together and dragged around
trees and stumps and over hollows
and hills as fast as man can walk.
This is done by means of steel wire
cable of any length desired. In this
way logs can be easily, quickly and
cheaply moved that could not be
budged with a livery stable full of
horses, and a donkey engine can draw
logs over wet land that no horse could
walk on.
Now, comrades, we have a large
sized nest egg as a starter for the
price of a donkey engine. 1t will
cost from $500 to 81 POO, according to
whether we can find a good second
hand one or buy a new one We will
need it Immediately. 1t is for you as
well as for us. We here are trying
to put every dollar sent in to the best
possible use. We invite attention to
what has already been done here and
pledge ourselves to make credltable
showing with whatever means the re-
serves conide to us.
The machinery fund is a loan from
our friends according to the terms Of
the agreement which is given below,
but payments to that fund may be
credited on membership fees if so de-
sired, though of course in that case,
the amount would not be repaid.
THE MACHINERY FUND AGREEMENT.
Resolved, That the general assem-
bly, of Equality colony hereby create
a special fund, to be known as the
machinery fund.- to begin October l.,
1898. Into this fund shall be paid %
per cent of all cash salaries drawn by
any and all members of Equality col
Ony, and also 80 per cent of all gross
cash earnings of all machinery bought
in whole or in part by the machinery
fund. The payment of such earn
ings into this fund shall begin six
months after the beginning of the
operation of such machinery in each
particular case.
This machinery fund shall be for the
single purpose of repaying any and
all members and others who have or
shall contribute money or its equiva-
lent toward the purchase of ma
chinery for Equality colony. This ma
chinery fund may be discontinued at
any regular meeting whenever all de-
mands upon that fund shall have been
paid. All loans to this fund shall be
without interest, the principal to be
paid quarterly and the amount due
each lender shall be calculated on the