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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Sacramento, California July 26, 1974 UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; Tomato Picker Pickets and Members (Unnemed) of United Farm Workers Union; San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office Stockton, Cslifornia - Complainant In connection with the tomato harvest in San | Joaquin County, there have been instances of picketing of the tomato fidds in the vicinity of Stockton, California, by _ so-called unaffiliated tomato pickers and members of the we United Farm Workers Union. As a result of this picketing activity, there were arrests of a total of eight pickets on That GA 1074 an seimead salle ¢raenaceina sharaac fan11awad July 26, 1974. , aa. : the San Joaquin County Sher r ce, on July 25 and 26, 1974, edvised ; that their office met with representatives of the San Joaquin % County Tomato Growers fesocietion and others and ae 2 at which time discussion was held as to filing a civil rights complaint on the part of the growers alleging deprivation of the grower's rights to conduct the harvest in a peaceful manner. prperrersrerseccrd on July 26, 1974, advised thet their office, on the afternoon of July 25, 1974, had conferred with Mr. Edward Howden and Mr. Fred Gray, representatives of by the arrest of three pickets during the early portion fa C This document contains neither recommendations nor con- clusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your egency; it and its contents are not to TAPP be distributed ones your agency. “4-6 (46 fo. s ~e — ft (? we un