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0) UNI'tkw STATES DEPARIMENT OF JUSSICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Sacramento, California fa Reply, Piast Refer wo t 19, 1968 « File Ne, corims pon UNITED FARM WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AFL - CIO DELANO, CALIFORNIA Copies of this memore re- being disseminated to intelligence agencies of the Arm ‘ye “Air Force, And Navy, and to United States Secret Service, Sacramento, California. The August 15, 1968, issue of the "Delano Record," a local tri-weekly Delano newspaper, reflects an interview with Cesar Chavez, Director, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), wherein Chavez stated that "this bea referring to the altercation between union picket ManueD ive era and Ignacid:Ruble, on August 13, 1968, "Ls only one of many more incidents which have happened over the past two months. The police, District Attorney, and Sheriff won't move on then. We will stay here tillw get action," referring to the picketing of the Delano Police Station. Mr. Chavez further stated that he had asked Attorney General Ramsey Clark to send Federal Marshals to Delano, ''so we can proceed with our union activities with some protection,” Mr, Chavez previously stated, on August 13, 1968, that he is asking for a Congressional investigation into the matter. (A one-day meeting of the General Labor Sub-Committee of the House Education and Labor Committee, headed by Congressman John Dent (Democrat-Pennsylvania), was held at the Delano High School on August 15, 1968, to hear testimony on farm labor problems as they related to Federal legislation. ) t 16, 1968 advised as rollows: , : “4 / i 47