◆ SpookStack

: . * \ . 7 ) 1 Mel Huey (June 17.69) © The cars of the strikers were parked along the side of a dirt county road t @here we had becn picketing. They were atl facing in the same direction, i When we decided to move to another field I stationed myself at the head of the chain of cars and began directing them to all turn off onto the side of the road where there was a kind of cul-de-sac s¢ that they could al} turn around with as little cor:fusion and danger as possible. Gustavo Gutierrez was standing about in the middle of the cul-de-sac also directing — traffic. At no time did any officer apptoach me and tell me that I was wiolating any law by standing in the road directing our cars. Shor“ly J heard Gus yel] to me but I could not hear what he was saying. Lt. Lane was with him. He yelled again and again I coutzn't hear him so I started to walk toward him to see what I wanted. When I was about half way to him Lt. Lane stopped me and told me I was under arrest. That was the first time I had been told that I could possibly have been violating any laws.As it was Lt. Lane had told Gus that I shouldn't have been there and that was why Gus yelled at me, but I never had a chance to find out what he wanted, I was then handcuffed and placed under arrest. Note: At Mel's trial Dept. Robt Case Star, the arresting officer, testified r- that Huey was attempting to stop traffic, was an extreme traffic hazard, renege and had been warned several times to get out of the road. He also tes= 7 tified that he was bloocking traffic at the time he was apprehended, How- ever it was an out of the way dirt road and the only cars in the, vicinity were those of the picketers and the sheriffs’ vehicles. elt ‘ & +e paurhraver (July 4, 1969) _ AY - Ee, The sheriff stopped . Joe, one of the strikers, on Cactus Lane. Mel and 1 oo were walking farther down Cactus Lane to go talk to other work crews farther "3 down the road. The-officer yelled to us whar we were about 40 feet from th to "stop and don't go any farther.“ When hz said this he was standing int middle of the road with his hand on his gu-n. We told him we were just ‘going farther down the road to picket and he again said *no.“ I then said in other words you're saying we can't picket. He replied "I just seid stay. there." we wee ? IT asked hin for his Ss badge qumber and name and he said he'd give it to me @hen he finished. “They Kept Joe Gbout 35 minutes and finally gave hima __ -_.. -wepair order, J asked the officer-agein for his name and number and he ' waYked over to the other sheriff and asked him something. Then he turned to me and said “Forget it." I asked him what Fe said and he again replied -_ u-- =. “I said forget it.” te then got tin his car and left wi thout giving me 7 oe ” the information. ck mette - ce ee = Pauly Chavez (July 7, 1969) © a So? Oe -_ = - We were picketing the Santa’ fe R pat rood in the evening fn an attempt . a. Stop the train from going through to pick up grapes. ‘Officer Fred Burrows . ode PR (Badge # 250), of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Dept drove his car up on the pickets as they marked on public property. Officer C.H. Hoagluno {#357} drove his car up from the other side closing the gap resulting 7 ‘in the pickets having to move to the other side of Zhe voad. "The Lt. an. Se charge was J. Hill. ‘This happened 4 at B25 Px. hag ote ne i PT PE rE ae 1 a . y ' ia 1 ‘ . ‘ ‘Z