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i. vey debe \ i we whe UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; Tomato Picker Pickets and Members (Unnamed) of United Farm Workers Union; San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office Stockton, California - C lainant Shockbon, Sebtfornta -Completnant Bh. by Oe abuse and are having to go to extraordinary means to prevent the violations of personal and property rights of others." "We are being compelled to be in attendance (at the tomato fields) in great numbers because of the conduct and mis- conduct of people at the scene. This denies the public's right to deputy protection. The public's right to be pro- is in jeopardy." The article further states that to his knowledge, knew of no otherlaw enforcement @gency filing civil rights charges in similar situations, and when asked whatkind lief the (U. S.) Department of Justice can provide, is quoted as stating, "I am not sure. This is kind of a unique thing and it has not been fully explored." . GEE 52: 3005020 county Sheriff's Office (SJCSO), on July 30, 1974, advised that incidents occurring out of the tomato picker picketing were relatively uneventful on July 27 through 29, 1974. However, five picket arrests on trespassing and assault on law _enforcement officer charges had been made July 30, 1974. advised that Mr. Fred Grey, representative of the Community Relations Division, U. S. Department of Justice, San Francisco, California, has continued to be an observer to the picketing activity in the vicinity of Stockton as of July 30, 1974, Further contact with the SJCSO resulted in information that an incident occurred on July 30, 1974, at a Stockton street intersection near a tomato fleld wherein tomato picker pickets and members of the United Farm Workers (UFW) had staged a sit-in. This incident related to the fact that the pickets were insisting on the arrest of a tomato grower representative whom they accused of deliberately injuring several UFW workers by driving his pick-up into the group. A meeting occurred Al