Student Strikebreakers: The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike and the SS Mariposa

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the following individuals for their advice and guidance in preparing this article: Sue and Neil McCabe, Abbie N. Sprague and Ben Albritton, and Byrne McLeod. And more importantly to acknowledge my father, Weston Sprague, who through his stories and photo album, inspired this article.

Notes

1 The Student Life, 18 May 1934.

2 The Stanford Daily, 10 May 1934.

3 Selvin, A Terrible Anger, 88–90, 236.

4 Ibid, 91.

5 The Daily Trojan, 16 May 1934.

6 The Student Life, 9 May 1934.

7 Harrison, The Strike, 6.

8 The Stanford Daily, 15 May 1934.

9 Harrison, The Strike, 6.

10 The Daily Trojan, 16 May 1934. The Stanford Daily, 24 May 1934.

11 The Daily Trojan, 16 May 1934. ‘Phi Kappa Psi house’ refers to a campus fraternity for men.

12 S. Thompson, letter to the editor, The Stanford Daily, 15 May 1934. ‘Cal football men’ refers to the University of California Berkeley’s football team.

13 The Student Life, 18 May 1934.

14 California Daily Bruin, 3 Jul. 1934.

15 The Student Life, 9–29 May 1934. This was later denied by the university. The Daily Trojan, 16 May 1934.

16 O’Brian, The White Ships, 44–5.

17 Worden, Cargoes, 72.

18 Clark, ‘The Tin Can Mail’, 846–8.

19 Stindt, Matson’s Century of Ships, 237.