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PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AT FEDERAL COURT BUILDING Assistant U.S, Attorney Barry Short U.S, Attorney's Office Clerk rensewarrrecat office o he Clerk of U,S, District Courts On October 8, 1974, ap article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch indicating that 25 supporters of the Urw Union had tiles Sulit challenging University City use of its tresprssing law to restrict their picketing at the Target Store at 8020 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis County, Missouri, The article indicates that in a suit filed recently in U.S, District Court 25 plaintiffs contended that the U.S, Copstitution bars University City from threatening arrest or trespassing on protesters for discussing their views with shoppers "in a peaceful non-disrupting manner”, The article states that members of the group have attempted to express their views to fellow shoppers at the store on September 28 and October 3, 1974, but that they were “continually harassed" by policeman and officers of this store, On October 8, 1974, a of~ fice of the Clerk of U.S, District Courts, St. Louis, Bissouri, furnished a copy of a complaint filed in U,S, District Court at St. Louis, Missouri, on October 4, 1974, under number 74- G97C (1), which set forth information which UFW alleged was in violation of their rights secured by the First ard Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S, Constitution. The complaint sets forth in specific detail UFW conm- plaints regarding actions of the University City Police Depart- ment for interferring with their peaceful demonstration at the Target Etore and "bad faith arrests" made by the University City Police Department, The complaint concluded by praying that the U.S, District Court of St. Louis issue a declaratory judgement “that application of such trespass fiatute to plaintiffs who want to be able to discuss their views concerning non-U.F.¥, grapes and lettuce to other persons in a peaceful non-disrup- tive manner in unconstitutional applications of 23-9, University f amad od