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August 21, 973 GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION The attached concerns a new Civil Rights matter reported to our Sacramento Office involving allegations by some 30 farmers in Kern and Tulare Counties, California, charging the United Farm Workers Union (0FW) with violating their civil rights and the civil rights of their workers. On 8/20/73, an attorney representing the various growers made available approximately 100 affidavits to the Bakersfield Resident Agency relating to acts of violence on part of the UFW. The FBI is requested to investi- gate UFW for conspiracy to violate rights of the growers in that the UFW has conspired to commit violence in violation of the right of farm laborers to work and growers to main- tain and harvest crops. The Sacramento Division has investigated several civil rights allegations wherein members of the UFW have alleged their rights have been violated by members of the Kern County Sheriff's Department and by the grape growers. These cases grew out of the current strike in the grape fields involving the UFW and Teamsters Union. This case will be discussed with the Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice, and no investigation will be conducted unless specifically requested by the Department. TMGrejm \9 a\) go" ve 4Yy-0- ACOA j