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- 4 e __ . ate ort me ee i ad Me : we al a Ke. 7 AG CI to Sh mm oe nt RE: NATIONAL FARM. WORKERS ASSOCIATION SYMPATHY DEMONSTRATION AT S & W FOOD COMPANY, 3350 NORTH KEDZIE AVENUE, “ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, WAY 23, 1966, ot IN PORT OF STRIKING DELANO, a CAL IA. MIGRANT GRAPE PICKERS ae > pickets re present, made up of persons from the SDS ,Congress * of RaciaF Equality (CORE), American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), striking Chicago welfare employees and some Catholic and Protestent groupe and/or representatives. A TST eew Se Sea YS we SSS Ee asa oe = Pe VS SS good number of the pickets were students who left before 9:00 AM and a token force of four to six pickets remained at the scene until the warehouse closed in the evening. Johnson stated that Lee Webb of the SDS was active in _ iene ie i a 2460 did ab nd = a toe oe CGeGrdinating the actions of the SDS pickets during th demonstration. Continuing it was learned from Johnson that there was no outright support of the picketing by the Teamsters Union itself but that the picketers received some individual support from a number of the teamster workers who refused to cross the picket line. It was also learned through Johnson that Cesar Chavez, active in organizing the grape workers in California, had been ir Chicago that date confering . in reference to the strike with various people in the Chicago area. He left at 1:45 PH and returned to California. Johnson gaid that in the past the NFWA had received the support of some Teamster Union locals in carrying out their strike against the DiGiorgio Corporation products. They had been most saccessful with the Teamster Union on the West Coast. Johnson remarked that the NFWA with the aid of CORE and other civil rights groupe had been quite successful in getting DiGiorgio and Schenley products removed from aghalvae Ineatad in etnras in Harlans and Rroolivn New York Sea VS 25S SY 255 EWE SS Fk SEEK eee ee gS ewe a @¢ According to Johnson the picket line would resume at 7:00 AM on May 24, 1966, however, it was not expected that more than ten or 12 pickets would participate on that date. - 5 - fa aH A NS NT Ee Bae a, Re EAS ee ee PI ee