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LA 161-1087 JMB: grj HOFFMAN is the legal mind of CHAVEZ and the UFWOCc, formerly the NFWA. said that although he could not prove it, he understands ~% HOFFMAN was connected with the Free Speech Movement on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, California. He said that in his opinion, the association of CHAVEZ with LUIS VALDEZ, ALEXANDER P, HOFFMAN and others closely surrounding CHAVEZ will in the Long pun be detrimental to the professed motives of this organization and will reflect character and reputation of CHAVEZ. aid he feels in his own mind that VALDEZ and HOFFNAN, as well as other close associates. of CHAVEZ, are "left of center", which he stated would indicate have inclinations toward communism or socialism but he could offer no concrete proof of this. ee that CHAVEZ and his associates have serious arupte he comminity of Delano, California. CHAVEZ villifies and condemns those who disagree with him. He said that CHAVEZ and his "militant few associates" have failed to cause a real strike of farm workers in Delano but that their picketing and boycotting activities have Seriously disrupted the normal course of business in the comminity. He said he does not feel that CHAVEZ has permitted the worker in the fields to express his view and that pickets furthering CHAVEZ' cause have harrassed and threatened farm workers in the field, alth CHA mself only appears when publicity is involved. said he makes this statement from his own observations and went on to state that CHAVEZ has collected a couple of lazy union members who would be collecting unemployment scompensation if they were not affiliated and receiving financial] assistanee from the UFWOC. ::::-: that he himself is a Mexican- Anerican, ng the same background as CHAVEZ, that is his parents were poor migrant farm workers and went on to say that he wholeheartedly disapproves of CHAVEZ' methods in —_~_2 2... AD s+. —__t aii to improve the conditions of the farm worker. ain «:: that prio e time CHAVEZ organized the NFWA, probably about 1962, admired CHAVEZ considerably but that his activities during the p or three years have changed his mind completely. Said he could net vouch for the character, reputation or loyalty of CHAVEZ to any degree at the present time and said he feels very strongly that CHAVEZ is not a leader but is