Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Nevada desert the summer temperature ranges between 100° and 120°. In the diversion tunnels on the canyon floor it averages 10° to 20° higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...
...seven days Walter Young, construction engineer of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, notified the contractors to resume work, cleared the reservation of all who did not have passes signed by him. Company officials said no striker would be reemployed, said nothing about restoring old wages to workers on the dam named for the foremost U. S. wage-maintainer...
...American Kennel Club has decided to register all pure bred dogs born in the U.S. on and after next Jan. 1, by litters. The owners of the whelping dam must furnish information on the breed, number of pups, their sex, markings, whether dam fed or foster-mothered. If litter registration is not fulfilled, the pups are ineligible for later individual registration. The litter record will be added to the bitch's register. Fees: $1 within 60 days after the throw, $2 thereafter; or for members of the constituent A.K.C. clubs, nothing for the first 60 days, $1 thereafter...
...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...