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FO.302 (REY. E 1-27-70) vf y ms —) 2 —_ >, ed FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Dote of transcription. 30 £39 /75, s advised of the official identity of the interviewing Agent and that anything he might say could be used in a court of la furnish a signed statement, but or. Be declined to We > wT aAw Sey ae LS y suY At approximately 8:00 a.m. on July 23, 1975, individuals representing the United Farm Workers (UFW) appeared on the road bordering the field in which he was working. They began shouting into the fields that the workers should join the strike by UFW. There were approxi- mately 20 or 25 representatives of the UFW on the road. tt weveeed hut hee: a on Urgang, Suc Seca ae Sod owner of the truck began getting mad at the w workers who did leave and began swearing at them, s0 all of the workers left. When the workers left the field they went out on the road and joined the strikers. They stayed on the road at all times. They moved down towards the other crew working in the field which had approximately 60 people in it and began shouting at them to join the strike. At about this time a Deputy Sheriff drove up and indicated that the road they were on was private property. The leader of the strikers, name unknown +o stated that he had checked the map on the road and it was public land. Another deputy came up and said that he would give them 10 seconds to leave inasmuch as the road was private property. He counted to ten and then arrested everybody. The deputies loaded all of the people into one truck and exas. ‘wierviewed on__10/24/75 al McAllen, Texas Fie #57. 44-2889 SC This document contoimt neither recommendations nor concivsions of the FBI. li is the Property of the FBl ond u loaned to your ogqency, K ond ils contents are nol to be distributed oulside your agency, Ju