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. v . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT Or JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Los Angeles, California January 21, 1966 CONF IAL COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION DELANO, CALIFORNIA A source advised as follows on January 11, 1966: Since the October, 1965, mass arrests of pickets in the Delano, California, area by the Kern County Sheriff's office, there have been no disturbances of importance, On the average there are approximately 40 pickets active in the Delano and adjoining Tulare County, California, area at the present time, during working hours in the vicinity of various farms in those areas. These pickets at time appeared to be attempting to provoke the farm workers in the fields through harassment into attacking them; however, no incidents have occurred to date. Source does not feel that the union organizers and pickets have the best interest of the farm workers at heart, but are merely "dead beats" and "trouble makers", Sixty three civic and church organizations have protested the actions of the National Farm Workers Asso- ciation (NFWA), but NFWA seems to issue only ultimatums rather than make any reasonable attempts to resolve the problems that exist between the farm owners and the union, or to reach any solution to the problem at hand, With this in mind, source feels it 1s possible that fights could erupt between farm workers in the fields and pickets at any time in the future, a There appears to be no possibility of an end to the strike in the near future, and no agreements are foreseeable between NFWA and.the growers, The future will bring mass picketing of all agricultural areas in the San Joaquin Valley and other California farm locations, in the opinion of the source, ¢ from automatic - ng and cation COPIES D®STROVEN \ SCTFEB 9 1971 | ,