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UNIY In Reply, Picese Refer ta File Ne. The "Los Angeles Times "edition of September 26, 1969, Part If, titled, Cabs 3 C£0Sir Li wie a "Cesar FEDERAL BUREAU OF o~ ATES DEPARTMENT OF : ( je INVESTIGATION Los Angeles, California Septemb , 1969 ge 2 contains the following artfcle att es r Ch 1a\ 1O7 rt. hl i £ ORE avez Begins 7-Week Tour of uU. §. z Begins of US. BY WARRY BERNSTEIN Tones Laver Wriler Cesarshhavez embarked Thursday on a seven-week nationwide tour with an optinistic word widespread support his grape boycott is reeciving. As an example, he noted that in Portland Wednes- day a picket line brought a halt to loading of ships docked there until one shipper agreed to with- draw a load of table cranes waiting to be put aboard one shin. Chavez, head of the AFE-ClO United Farm Workers Organizing Com- mittee, sald in an inter- view here that he is now working full time after spending most of the past year in bed because of back problems. He said he will testify in Washington, D.C. next week before a Senate coin- mittee that the union has “clear evidence that grow- ers are peisoning workers and contaminating table grapes by the increasing use of pesticides." (Growers deny that pes- ticiles are endansering farm workers and cite governincnt studies to show that grepes are not hartivl becuse of the use of pesticides (Th: grovers contend the union has raed the is: ow’ as a ntcans of on the. pressuring them for union recognition.) Then Chavez will visit 40 cities where tears of union workers are press- ing the grape boycott "to consider ways of pushing Yhe boycott further than we have yet done." Chavez said he also will mect with Congress to press 2gain for legislation to give farm workers the sume farm labor law coverage Which most oth- er nonfarm svorkers have under the National Labor Relations Act. Ch3vez showed little op- fimisin for early resuimnp tion of ks with a group of 12 grape growers whe cid agree to try to work out a “settlement with thes union. Chavez asked chicf fc- deral mediator J. Curtis Counts last week to try to arrange a resumption of the negotiations, and the growers “ill mect Oct. 9 to ‘decide whether ther want further talks with the union. Most granegrawers ap posed even the earlier scisions agrecd to by the 12 growers, calling the with to mMperemieny ta Riest Chavez The growers sav the vrion decs not represent their worker: