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way . £ z _ Fd 4 _- told him we had been doing it since the beginning of the strike and the: _ officers never said anything before. He said the rule started yesterday * J'33 just shoot yo/¥n the head" | don't know if On « serious. I guess he was just trying frighten me. turer = LEZ One storning I drove with Gustovo to Litchfield from Arakelian Ranch to buy 2 newspaper and siake a phone call. One of the sheriffs followed us- all the way into Litchficid. He then waited while we made the call and then followed us all the way back. Me Hue fi fir ie s and I and four others in the car were following the bus of contractor Rosales which goes to E) Mirage and Surprize. We followe them fcr about four miles when on Waddell Rd one of the sheriffs cars got fin front of us and | deliberately tried to Slow us down SO we Would JoSe the bys. Then fn El Miragethe sheriff got in front of us and the £1 Hirage patrol car behind us. They stopped us and said we couldn't follow and “harass’ the people like that. They took all our identification. Gus said that we had a right to talk to the people and their homes. Then we left and tried to catch the bus again on Grand Avenue. Then the same police car Stopped us again and =. said one of the sheriffs wanted to talk to us at the police station in Ei Mirage and asked us to foliow him there. We went to the police station but there was no sheriff. They asked us our names and addresses again and then told us to leave. yiney actually had noting to talk to ws about oo. but only wanted to preven. us from following the bus which we had a right to do. + . - z VW On another occasion Albert Torres and a few other men who had been on strike — with us decided to bo back to work at Sikes Ranch where there was no strike at the time, The sheriffs spotted them on the road and followed them 21) the way into the ranch. There the sheriff deputy went to the foreman ~ the gsdey ¢ and told him that these men had been on strike and had been picketing. aa. Met fiety 19) oS _ ies wea yus acy . : . . ; oe eon. eet omer. 1 saw a dirt clod thrown from inside the field hit a striker': S tar.“ The striker 2 went and complained to the Sheriff who indifferently replied “I don‘t e know who threw it." Ho effort was made ti {nvestigate the facident or to ee Sg “speak to a foreman to prevent further 4ncidents. : . ae! Uo ee a Ps rel af antar and 2 Wwe Were or aig yee wees picketers I ‘ponke to them. Offic er F Mctlostey heard me and then came aith his lights blinking. I stopped. He came and asked me for my Yicense and ~ I told him I didn't have {t with he. He asked my name and address and called a 7 Gn to see if I had a Jicense and they told him yes. Then I asked him thy ~ -"2 -he stopped me. He said because there was a law against honking ‘horns. 4 as morning. Then I: said they hadn't told us about that rule. Mellie then fBaid that the pol ice were fuct harascing the people on strike, He caid he ae oo was on nobody’ $ Side. I then asked him why they didn't do anything when . ee a