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F Caroline Rosales (Jun. 8B, 1969) © vv ; Lb ye We thought we spotted Coach Arney from Peoria in the fields but weren't sure dt was him because of his glasses andbeard. So we called him on the P.A. oy" system. He looked at us but ee still weren't sure it was him. About 50 yards frp, 4s were Ed Estfan and another striker. Lt. anc who was near Ed | t- | talled one of the foremen over and told him on his own initiative that --~>** | the strikers had recognized Arney and that if they didn't want him har- rassed should move him farther back into the fields. Ed Estfan heard this conversation and the officer's recommendation was totally unsolicited. This happened at the Boswell Ranch. cali we me erage Usually when we ask for clarification from any of the sheriffs about -whether or not we can do Something Vawfully then are very alooof and acusing in their attitude. The officers usually let you know that . they think they are doing us a favor for letting us picket, park on county roads, and even blow our auto horns. ~ (June 18, 1969) Caroline (continued) On the second day of the strike we had our sound car on one side of the = road with the speaker on the other with the cord lying flat across the os r road. One of the sheriffs told us we couldn't lay anything across the road. .—. We asked him what Taw said we couldn't. He stammered and then said it’s : just agains’ the law. Then we talked to out -lawyers and they went over and talked with the police and after that they said nothing about the cord That same day we walked along the raflroad tracks that ran adjacent to ,. -..._ Boswell's field so we could talk to the workers who were farther in the 7 Ree field. The police then came to us on their own initiative and ordered our people off the tracks. Our lawyers then told them that the tracks were railroad property and that the sheriffs had no jurisdiction to order - us off but that the railroad would have to do so. We then stayed there about . .. - half the morning until a representative from the railroad came and ordered == us off the tracks. a Note: I believe attorneys Wilks and Ely were the men involved inthe = ~~ ced : above ipcidents and should have more information on them, eae oa I was going to join the picket Vine at Waddell Rd & Cotton Lane where there ae t-.- - 48 a 4-way stop at that dntersection. I came to a stop then pulled thru - = 7 7#= the intersection to park my car alongside the road. There was @ sheriff ~ 9 ==" i F 3 f ! f - parked on Cotton Land facing north near the stop sign. He got out of his - .----- fF. _ tar and walked over to me. He claimed I had stoppped too far past the an “stop sign on Waddell road and asked for my Vicense. Then Fr. Robert, one. . of the picketers came over and asked the sheriff why he was questioning - ae when only a few minctes earlier when one of the workers driving from “_* <> . the camp had gone right through the stop sign right in front of the officer” . te had done nothing about 4t. The officer claimed he didn't see any “AS ~ violation. He was going to give me a ticket until] Fr. Robert came wp and— eae - questioned him about the other car. Since the other man was going to ==: ne AE ‘work he didn *t bother him, ut since he saw I was a striker he wanted One ciieer aan to find Something ‘wrong. os # ins 340