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e VIaNOW MEMBERS OF UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION From the £1 Paso Herald-Post, July 30, 1975: LULTAC pursues~— | Pecos protest William T. Bonillz, LULAC District 4 | Corpus Christi attorney and past national president of League of United Latin American Citizens, today notified Mrs. Belen Robles that he has contacted the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Department. of Justice for immediate : + FORT STOCKTON, Tex. ‘UPI) — Pecos County" sheriff Cc. §. Teneyck says jus deputies are acting impartially in trying to prevent violence during | United Farm Workers organizing efforts at West Texas meion farms. investigation of alleged illegal actions against farm workers trying to unionize at Pecos, Tex. Mrs. Robles headed a™ District 4 LULAC com- mittee that went to Pecos last week to study the Situation. She conferred ;with the national president) “Manual Gonzalez of Waco} Who asked Bonilla to look into the matter as ‘member of the national. advisor’s legal staff. ! BONILLA’S sister, Mary | Helen Bonilla, i legal ! advisor to LULAC but was’. busy with another case. He | represents her in the Pecos ; matter, , Originally the District 4 committce hoped that Bonilla would be able to visit Pecos personally this weck. He had court obligations and told Mrs. Robles he would keep in touch to sce whether he might get to Pecos in a few days. —— Director Ralph Murillosaid last week, in demanding an investigation into arrest of United Farm Workers organizers at Pecos, there were several apparent violations of law. He cit the arrest of children and, placing them in facilitie es} with adults, refusal of the Reeves County sheriff to accept bond from a recognized bondsman, and duesiions abuut ihe charge of trespassing as examples of possible i ilegalitiss S* i>)