Tuesday, July 3, 1934
We went to Stanford University today and went into the chapel and the Art Academy. The chapel certainly is beautiful. The colored glass windows tell the story of Jesus Christ in pictures on the walls there were all in colored glass the front of the church is the same. In the back of the church where the preacher is, there are 12 niches lined with gold leaf, and with the statues of the 12 disciples in until in 1906, when the dreadful earthquake was, the statues all fell out of their niches and were broken. They were never replaced. On the way home we saw the strikers in one big mob. Boy were there a lot of them! Whooie. Mounted policemen were keeping order. Stanford University has 3,000 pupils.
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From Wikipedia, on the West Coast Longshoremen's Strike: "...The Roosevelt Administration tried again to broker a deal to end the strike, but the membership twice rejected the agreements their leadership brought to them. The employers then decided to make a show of force to reopen the port in San Francisco. On Tuesday, July 3, fights broke out along the Embarcadero in San Francisco between police and strikers while a handful of trucks driven by young businessmen made it through the line...." Bloody Thursday was two days later.