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( . Sa UN1.ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF , STICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATICN In Reply, Please Refer to San Francisco, California + File No May 31, 1968 POSSIBLE PICKETING OF U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK BY UNITED FARM WORKERS, — MAY 29, 1968, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Reference is made to a memorandum dated May 24, 1968 captioned as above. Copies of this memorandum are being distributed locally to the Army, Navy, Air Force, United States Attorney, San Francisco and Secret Service, San Francisco. Picketing at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel began at 7:30 p.m. by the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO in preparation for the address to be given by U.S. Attorney General RAMSEY CLARK. At 7:45 p.m. pickets numbered 67. The maximum number of pickets was reached at 8:45 p.mse when 367 encircled the entire hotel. Approximately -half of the pickets were wearing badge credentials of the”National Conference of Social _Welfare whose convention the U.S- Attorney General was addressing. Picketing ended at 9:05 p.m. (ee Signs carried by pickets included, "Quit Drafting Strike Breakers," "U.S. Department of Injustice," and "Support Delano (California) Farm Workers." The pickets were chanting "Don't Buy Grapes." Picketing was orderly and obeyed request of the San Francisco, California Police Department in regard to areas of picketing and blocking of entrances. The pickets entered the Continental Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel and from 9:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. the picket leader, with the aid of a power bullhorn, interrupted the speech of the U.S. Attorney General demanding Federal enforcement of laws against strike breakers. RAMSEY CLARK was speaking on "legal rights for all." The individual with the bullhorn recited a This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.