The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-10-13
ORGANIZED LABOR
SMASHES RECORDS

PUYALLUP, Oct. 9.-The
estern Washington fair
smashed all previous attendance
records Sunday when $4,000
people crowded the grounds.
Sunday was "Organized LabOr's
Day" ard the reconciliation af-
fected with the fair manage
ment two weeks ago was re-
flected in a record breaking at
tendance of 145,000 during the
week as compared with 10000
last year.
Saturdays attendance was
estimated at 10000, the largest
of any week day. This included
the night crowd, which was
absent Sunday. Secretary
George ID. Osborne estimated
Fridays attendance at $4,000,
Thursday at $4,000 and Monday
and Tuesdays at 21,000 and 49,
600.
Outside the fair grounds 5000
automobiles from all parts of West
ern Washington were parked. Local
officials handled the traffic in big
city style and few accidents were re-
ported
Treasurer w. A. Miller an
noUnced that fair receipts would
total S85,000 or $4,000 more
than last year. The first three
days of fair week this year
threatened rain, while last year
perfect weather featured fair
week.
The address of the afternoon
was made by William M. Short,
president of the State Fedora
ton of Labor. Speaking
through a wOnderphOue, which
carried his voice to all parts of
the fair grounds, Short on be-
half of organized labor prom
ised cooperation with the farm
ers of the Puyallup valley and
the fair management.
"Today we are establishing and
hope to maintain in the future the
most active cooperation possible
with President Paulhamus and the
management of the Western Wash
ington Fair Association" said Short.
'"Organized labor is happy to be
here today. Agriculture is a basic
industry of Western Washington. If
the wage workers in the cities are
well paid they are able to pay a
good price for the products of the
farm. The prosperity of the farm
means the prosperity of the cities.
I'm past years there has been
some misunderstanding between
organized labor and the manage
ment of this fair. | am glad
TO state that this misunderstand-
ing is past, and we are going to-
cooperate in the future. We are
glad to know that the Paulhamus
we knew in 1907 and 1909, when
we were fighting for an eight
hour day for women workers, is
again with us. Organized labor is
with the farmers of Western
Washington to make this the
greatest fair west fthe Mis-
sissippi river"
John Henry Everybody Sing"
Lyons lead the grandstand audi
ence in singing "America" and vari-
ations of the chorus of "John
Browns Body" and the Battle Hymn
of the Republic" He finished up by
getting Paulhamus to sing the chorus
while the crowd thundered forth the
''iah' at the end of "hallelulah"
Paulhamus in closing remarks
invited everybody back next year
and made his usual promise of
bigger and better than ever"
which has been successfully kept
for 20 years. The administrative
genius of Paulhamus has carried
this fair forward from year to
year as financial success with
out state or county aid.
Paulhamus may not come back as
president of the fair next year. He
wanted to withdraw from the bur-
dens of leadership this year. Paul
hamuse, whose history is interviewer
with the development of the Puyal-
lup valley into a garden spot of
Washington. is getting very tired and
wants to retire and rest.