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a, eee cee et Ni NOTE: Gutierrez, Arizona Représentative of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, directed letter to the Imited States Attorney setting forth alleged civil rights violations by law enforcement officers in connection with a strike at several grape ranches located in the general area west of Phoenix, Arizona. [Included in the allegations “eran was a charge that 4 deputy sheriff stood by idly while a ranch foreman “roughed up" a priest who works with the farm workers. Gutierrez also advised that the incidents listed in his letter comprise only a partial listing and that they were in the process of compling a more compre~ £ hensive and specific list involving police conduct. This was discussed with Departmental Attorney Charics W ; ; Quaintance on 7-28-69, who requested that Gutierrez be 7 SS ; interviewed for specific details. That conversation is * . being confirmed in writing.