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. —t | Rangers | | Continued from Page One onstrators), and the other by {tne union itself. ; The other sult was to come up for trial in federal court in Browosvile in mid May, (eet bie fem mabe 6 sell jJone it That will makp it pending for about a year, since i was filed on June 12 last -year by the United Farm Work-: ers Organizing - Committee! agiinst the Rangers and offi- i of the Starr County sher- He be department. It is to [de ih ard before a three-judte court, H . dants i l he © cut names specifically Ran allan Mae, a Vv 7 wep f 2. MULE, JCA: ,a5 Rangerg S. If, Denson, Jack Van Cleve, Jerome Preiss and 'T. H. Dawson; Sheriff Dr. Rene: ‘Solis, Deputy Sheriffs Raul and: Roberto Pena and Special Dep- vaty Sheriff Jim Rochester, al] of Starr County, and Justice of! ithe Peace B. §. Lopez, also of ‘Ris Grande City. ,. They were charged by mem: bers of the UFWOC with de lpriving members of the ‘m- won” of their constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. The ‘deprivation’ was la connection with arrests and de- tention of ‘union’ members| during the months - long picket- ing of Starr County produce Among the plantiffs is Gilbert! Padijla, vice president of the. “union” who was an associate! of Cesar Chavez, founders of pe California farm unionl of, ich the Texas organization is splinter. Padilla now ig in arge of the Valley “‘uniba” re ot caged in Rio Gray ty st a rally to pre ltest the presence of Rangers there during picketing action jand other demonstrations. Mem. | ,bers of the union were arrest. led following numerous incidents. ' \Sidience was rarapamt i ithe Jong months of atuonization! jeHort, a railroad bridge was| cburned, cars were burned, citi. ‘zens were threatened and trains! iwere Selayed, Rangers had ta ride shotgun on t ains : itng out_of the Valley-CAPryoty imeions. | t | - Three Jedgezs a! The judges who arr to Dear! the case are Federal District, Judge “<naldo Gara of Browns Judge John RK. Brown of the Fifth Circuit U. 5. \Court of Civil Appeals, New lOrleans, and Judce Woodrow 'Seals, ef the Southern District ‘Court in Houston. : Because of weather condition: which have caused the melor erop to be late and small, hit anionization effort has been ob served this spring. A big union ‘ization effort was to have un defiaken this spring and sim mar, with the advent of the m crop, some of the fue iodites” indicated. This document contains ncithor reremmand -titns wosonctusions of tha FBL oie ta oorcp -ty f th FOI and is loaned to your op ory: a and ts coritents are not to be distributed outside your agency aX