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. * et {2 - 7 . UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ‘ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION San Antonio, Texas June 3, 1967 Trews o ACTIVITIES CONCERNING FARM BS, WORKERS STRIKE IN : ote *. RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS The June 2, 1967 edition of the valley Evening Honitor, daily mlewspaper published in McAllen, Texas, carries an article on pace 1 captioned, wbernal Savs Connally Will Be Asied to Remove Texas Rangers” The article states in part that one Ben Rodriguez and Iiagdaleno Dimas of United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) were arrested Thursday night, June l, 1967. Dimas was arrested on charges of Carrying a deadly weapon and disturbing the peace at La Casita Farms in Rio Srande City, Texas, and Rodriguez on charge of helping Dimas resist arrest. a wer -@ The article states that according to Justice of : the Peace Brigido S, Lopez, Rio Grande City, Dimas suffered a small cut near one ear and Rodriguez a small cut on one finger. Eoth were treated at a Rio Grande City Hospital on instructions of Justice of the Peace Lopez. EAR The article further states State Senator Joe Bernal, San Antonio, Texas, in a press conference in McAllen, Texas, on June 2, 1967, said he was going to ask Texas Governor John Connally to remove the Texas Rangers from Starr County on the basis that the rangers are present at the request of the produce growers and not the people, that tne Rangers are making unjistified arrests, that a union member was recently jailed without being charged, and that Rangers used violence on June 1, 1967, while in nd to union members. -¢ pears g hetta t 2 7 na ‘7 = a | - This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your ‘agenc:. / = / i : 7; 33 Fib 5 we . / — =: eee ee ee r = 7 ry 7 “ee! ~ a a Pk? “. .e 2s am Lr rae fr nett aialey tMal we A. Ta Ste ee, ioe Mal ~ em fee a0, TNT ‘Ae mea ee toe aS i. . oe rr ae eet - ™~s, LT alae od ee ate ~~ ‘ + we Res wpe.