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Aug 3, 2026 4 min

Hoover Dam Construction Worker Strike, 1931

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This week marks the anniversary of the August 7th, 1931 start of the strike by 1,400 constructions workers on the Hoover Dam. The strike over poor working and living conditions, paycuts, and worker fatalities. Harry Richardson has the story.

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