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_ | UN1.ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JuSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Washington, BD, C, 20535 in Reply, Please Refer te May 4, 1970 MARCH TO AND DEMONSTRATION AT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, MAY 1 - 3, 1970, BY UNITED FARM WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, AFL-CIO advised that a contingent of United » would march to the Department of Agricul- ture to protest legislative and administrative obstacles to equal rights for farm workers and to petition for remedies, and to stress continued boycott of non-union grapes. The march was scheduled to commence at Columbia, Maryland, on May 1, 1970, leave Burtonsville, Maryland, on May 2, and resume at Jessup Blair, Park, Silver Spring, Mary- land, on Sunday, May 3. Qn Sunday, May 3, 1970, a representative of the FBI observed about 200 people leave St. Stephen end the ' Incarnation Church, 16th and Newton Streets, N.W., about 12:45 p.m, The group, carrying UFW banners and sometimes chanting "Boycott Scab Grapes," "Viva La Huelge,'' marched in a very orderly manner to the North Agriculture Building, via 16th Street, N.W., through Lafayette Park, and 15th Street, N.W. The group were predominently white, with a few Spanish Americans and Negroes. 7 At North Agriculture on the Mall, east of 14th Street, N.W., the above group merged with another five to six hundred demonstrators. Commencing about 3:45 p.m, ; the group were greeted by J. C, Turner of the District of Coluabia Labor Council,’ Jip - S¥4¢ 764-19 CMDS a? ” a .