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Cesar Chavez — Part 1

101 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 13, 1973 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Cesar Chavez · 101 pages OCR'd
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———s FORT STOCKTON (Suif) — Thirteen persons, including United Farm Workers union sympathizers and two Austin ae * men who were filming @ a documentary, were arrested by wea Heeves and Pecos County "; sheriff's deputies on a private “troad-agout three miles , Southeast of Coynosa this r . morning in the third straight eg Gay of flareups between “llawmen and tnicn mitt y cumpathivers, “Peace Justice Tillie Colk of “ort Stockton was expected ts rave charges of criminal srespass filled with ber against he 13 persons and ponds af $400 jon each person were expected ‘to be sot later today. | Pecos County Sheriff Pete , Ten Cyck said that the 13 were ai arrested shortly after 7 a.m. “2” ZE4 today on a private road at the ws dim Burkholder farm after the :’_’ [svimpathizers got out of their fF . [cars un preparation to talk to { canta.oupe pickers working in rel the fields nearby, . Ten Fuck eaid the 12 were. yer a arrested * ‘as soon as they go’. jut ci their cars.’ Jim Harrington, an attomey wi from Hidalgo who has been observing the union action for . the past several days, said the ~ the past severa: cays, said wae "ft lawmen “pushed around’’ those k arrested before loading them EB into the seven or eight patrot Fe cars sent to the scene. = Among those arrested were =a Roger Manne and Andy Snyder, memuvers of an Austin crew “iilming the action for a docunivnialy.—. ..0 CO ce nt ee ae cl i Aa “They grabbed hold of them and look Hoger's tape recorder away from him,” Harrington said, though he believes the camera Was not confiscated. Ten Eyck said no recording _ or filming equipment was confiscated | but did: say two men “who were down there filming everything,’ were arrested along with the 11 others. Harrington said two juvenile girls were also arrested, but Ton Eyck Gebied ie charge, « ‘They were picked up in the riddle of a public road, as soon ds they got our of their cars.” Harrington said. "They didn't have time to do anything." * Ten Eyck said the road was @ private drive to the Burkholder Farm. Harrington said the Jawmen were “devided about evenly” between Reeves and Pecos County deputies, but Ten Eyck said most of the men were from Pecos County and ‘‘only a couple” were from Reeves County, Dernties In both countias eset Bis bi have been taking tough stand against the demonstrators after 27 persons including eight juveniles were arrested early Wednesday on a farm near- : Verhalen, sauth af Daane in SGuln Of ectog Reeves County. All 27 have been released, with lhe Tast 16 being reiéasad LAKVOWN MEMBERS OF UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION From the Odessa~American July 25, on _bonds by Odessa attorney Warren Burnett ‘Thursday. Burnett has been retained to defend all those arrested and said today that be or someone froma his office will be driving te Pecos this morning. | Ten Eyck said ‘there w workers out in the fields" this morning “but aone of them came over eat what was oing on” w e 13 persons gore arrestad, Uarrington said two ur bree! of the persons arrested this Morning were arrested in th group of 27 persons Wednesda and had just been released from igil Thursday, oa ae Ten Eyck satd he didn't know if any of those arrested in his county this morning had been arre-téd before or pa | : ee 1975: i
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