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ae ee We . - on -. ‘ { UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF wtice FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION San Antonio, Texas December 22, 1967 ACTIVITIES CONCERNING FARM WORKERS STRIKE IN RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING The December 21, 1967, issue of the San Antonio Light, a San Antonio, Texas, daily newspaper, carried the following article. 5 hive? _ 14 "Dope Charge Filed on Faym Activist" 1 dl y - fj "Benito: Rodri uez, 27, of 158 Gladstone, active last sprig in the Rio Grande Valley farm labor movement, was in jail Thursday in lieu of $10,000 bond after being charged with unlawfully receiving, concealing and trans- porting marijuana, "Customs agents reported they arrested Rodriguez Tuesday on a downtown San Antonio street. "Four pounds of marijuana, which he allegedly brought illegally into the United States, was confiscated. "Rodriguez was jailed in lieu of bond after a hearing before U.S. Commissioner Frank Baskin. "Rodriguez took part in the activities in Starr County last spring of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. "Another farm union organizer, Magdaleno Dimas, was convicted in Mexico earlier this year for possession of marijuana. The union has canceled his membership." This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. _~ 4e_ OPIES Pett iay 33, FEB 9 i971 PO Coe ! !