"[As deputy sheriff,] I put a couple of men out in their [IWW] camps... And then we began to know every move they were going to make. Their plan... was to get in at night and cut all the gas lines on the transportation trucks... I didn't have enough men so the AFL [American Federation of Labor] gave me 10 or 12 men. Sure enough, about one o 'clock in the morning [the Wobblies] came in and cut the gas [lines] on two trucks. "We brought the Wobblies into Vegas and got them under arrest. The rest of them had congregated in the mess hall. Someone informed the Teamsters and the carpenters, and they arrived at the mess hall and went to work on the Wobblies. That's the last trouble we had with them. - Glenn E. "Bud" Bodell "A lot of these Wobblies were really hard workers. They were the type of men that did drilling and blasting, and that's hard work. They weren't loafers. Looking buck on it, I think they did a good job. My own personal opinion is that they needed the troublemakers to make the contractor do what he should for the men. I'm not Communist, but I think a man ought to have decent working conditions. They finally had to install drinking fountains down at the dam, and the water was chilled, cooled... That's one thing that was gained by the strike. "16 - Steve Chubb Tempers shortened amid the broiling heat. Among the workers were organizers for the radical labor I union, the Industrial Workers of the World, who agitated for better pay and working conditions. On August 7, Six Companies played into the agitators' hands by cutting wages for muckers (above), I who shoveled out the tunnels following blasts. Six Companies attributed the pay cut to new equip- ment and a shift in personnel; nevertheless, a week-long strike ensued. Reacting to the strike, the Bureau of Reclamation erected a gate at the border of the federal reservation. Armed guards required work identification from anyone entering, and they confiscated liquor and other contraband. The strikers, waiting to be rehired (above), demanded higher wages, pure water and flush toilets at the River Camp, and ice water and changing rooms at the job sites.