Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-06
A SOCIALIST MISFORTUNE.

In neIshboring State of Oklahoma, Socialist sed indefinitely on the sea of contentment threatened with shipwreck n an old story and con. less the incapscity of the than the ncapaci y of the mariners Upton Sinclair and his Haycon Hall fin New Jersey furnish similar account of disaster The moral of Socialist endeavors seem to be that the economic is not yet ready to sustain adventur- ous armadas
 The Socialist colony mperiled is located at Mil ton, Oklahoma. All work is done in common There are colony stores and shops. and all improvement is done by common labor Every given credit for the days he works. and is paid in at the colony stores when settlement day comes-once every three months. The profits of the colony aside meet payments upon the debts against the land.
 But the colony is by factional disputes One of the factions known the antis declares that the af fairs of the colony be satisfactorily adjusted and is asking the courts appoint a receiver. This being resisted by the larger faction which the end of Socialist dream if the colony taken of It's control.
 The aniis assert that they the victims of con spracy. They claim to have gone the colony and worked in its coal mine for many days. receiving scarcely enough and to keep them alive. and that they cannot get settlement for tlier labor
 They also assert that II. c. Waller. manager of the colony and editor of The Underground Savage the newspaper the arcf conspiraor They assert men induced Milton and join the colony promises of work in the mine good wages, but that they paid. and when they call meeting pro test they legislated of the colony.
 
 The other side of the story is quite different Walters supporters that the antis a conspiracy to get of the colony by of it's hold. ing and operating the colony coal mine 1t has the pref right to lease section of segregated coal lands soon be sold by the Government for the Indians
 There Is still another story to the effect that liquor is at the bottom of all the trouble that some of the wokers in the coal persisted in getting drunk This strictly against the rules of the colony and grounds for expulsion.
 Walter Head. a young Choctaw Indian. who owned allotment Milton with coal mine it, after par acres of land and the coal the Socialists, who pay for the property, both land and mine, from the sale of the ots the mine to be turned over with absolute title when the purchase price paid in full
 An appeal was made not only 10 Socaists or thls State. but the members of the party all over tho United States pay for this project part of the land up into lots and put upon the market None was sold except persons who had faith in the com munistc idea. The great trouble which the colony en countered at the outset was finding Socialists with money. Tie less money they had the more they be
 eved in communal labor and profit sharing but this did pay for the land and the mine However. hundreds of lots finally sold of them long time pay ments The colony established and land and coal mine turned to them.
 The colony was to pay in nsallments as the money collected for the coal sold and payments on lots made They have succeeded fairly we'll so far Tho land Is paid out but the colony is far from bankrupt The mine Is running steadily and has daily output of two carloads of coal There 100 people in the col ony and with the exception of the present every thing has gone serenely along.