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...Hoover Dam was virtually under martial law last week. A strike was in progress. No work had been done for seven days, since Six Companies, Inc. had paid off 1,300 men and ordered from the reservation 200 who had struck for higher wages, better working conditions...
...President's first concern was to dam the rising tide of wage cuts. For a few hours last week it looked almost as if his administration's policy, laid down in 1929, to maintain existing pay schedules had been reversed. Representative Condon of Rhode Island, scene of recent textile strikes, wrote Secretary of Commerce Lamont complaining of wage reductions, asking for Federal support to stop them. Mr. Lamont replied: "As the period of depression lengthens, many corporations find themselves in extremely difficult positions. Many of them have already cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with...
Rather proud of himself, Secretary Wilbur proceeded to Las Vegas, N. M. where he joined Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific System's president and then on to Hoover Dam. There he exploded the first charge of dynamite in Black Canyon's wall for the 4,000 ft. diversion tunnels which will carry the Colorado River around the dam site during construction...
...heat in the canyon was intense. It had already killed one workman. Secretary Wilbur, the sweat running into his eyes, felt dizzy. Last week his department ordered physical examination for all Hoover Dam workers to determine if they were fit to stand the blazing canyon temperature (100° plus) at dam site. Much of the labor has been recruited from nearby camps of unemployed men whose physical condition has been lowered by scant rations...
...Hoover Dam reservoir's capacity will be 30,500,000 acre-feet, of which between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 acre-feet will be a silt pocket. Estimates of what the annual silt deposit will be vary from 80,000 to 250,000 acre-feet, but Government engineers opine that the total deposit in 50 years will not exceed 3.000.000 acre-feet. Reader Stewart's friend's figures for the silt content of the Colorado River look high. Government observations at Yuma, Ariz, noted .48% silt...