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{ . - ) page 2 1 ea, 3, ‘Under the guise of directing traffie the police waved the cars of workers into the fields of one of the struck ranches therby pre- venting the pickets from talking to the worlers in order to per= suade the latter to join the strike, wee 4, The unton members are constantly followed by the Sheriff's Department when they drive their cars anywhere and are constantly stopped by the deputies for no apparent reason or for minor traffic offenses which are tenuous at best, The union members are then reanired to show identification and answer questions, The police also sit in their cars outside the unfon offices during meetings and on other occasions, 5. After work one day a car load of union menbers was following a bua full of workers to talk to them about joining the unfen after the bus stepped, After following for a shore distance the police got one car in front of the union members and one car behind then and then pulled them over. The police then requested all the union tieibers to come down to the station vhere they were required to shov identification and submit to interrogation, Again this action by the police was for no apparent reason and no one was charged, The obvious effect, of course, of the police action was to separate the union members from the bus and to prevent the union memters from talking to workers in the bus when it reached its destination, 6, Sevoral farm workers have been fired for signing union authorization eards which is a violation ef Arizona lav, The police, after Luvesti- gating, admitted clear violations had occurred, but refused to procéed -z- with any prosecution on the grounds that they were "neutral" in this labor dispute, 7. A Deputy went into the fields, obtained. some grapes and came back to tne picket line and ate them telling the pickets how good they - tasted, virtually taunting the pickets. Although this act is of course not itself illegal it is very symbolic in this dispute and as becomes quite meaningful in the context of the other acts, 8. <A Deputy went up to some pickets on country direc road and told then a they had to walk twenty feet apart. When a picket responded that the .. -- law provided only that they rot obstruct traffic, the deputy replied = - ~ that the twenty foot rule was his “lew” and if they‘wanted to net along with him they should obcy his “law." On another occasion a . Deputy told the pickets that they were not a union end therefore had - no right to picket, 9, During the pieketing one day, two Deputy Sheriffs each placed their Ls, Cars at opposite ends of the picket line and drove slowly toward ; one another squcezing the pickets together until the pickets vere finally forced to move to another location, Some of the pickets clain _ that they were actually physically pushed by the Deputica’ cars, -One .- _ woman became sufficiently frightened that she needed to be helped away = from the scene. ~~ SE oe] Sen