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oes ~ UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; Tomato Picker Pickets and Members (Unnamed) of United Farm Workers Union; San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, Stockton, California - Complainant the Community Relations Division, U..S. Department of Justice, San Francisco, California, and had made a complaint during the Stockton meeting relative to the civil rights of the personnel of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office involved in keeping the peace during a) G2) the picketing activity of the tomato fields, stated that it was their contention that their deputies were being harassed, injured and interferred with in performance of their duty which was considered a violation of theircivil rights. Further, it was their contention that citizens of the San Joaquin County community were being deprived of full law enforcement protection due to the necessity of assigning large numbers of law enforcement personnel to handle the picketing problems, He advised that fam deputies sustained minor injuries on July 24, 1974, and that more deputies had sustained minor injuries July 26, 1974. advised that Mr. Howden and lr. Gray Ta “were observing picketing and law enforcement activities in the tomato fields during the early morning hours of July 26, 1974, 1X\