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oP 8 y 4 — Mes UNT STATES DEPARTMENT arey CE In Reply, Ploass Refer San Antonio, Texas May 15, 1968 ACTIVITIES CONCERNING FARM WORKERS STRIKE IN RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS MISCELLANEOUS ~ INFORMATION CONCERNING & t* se agver ty 2 a hardibilt.* The 11, he " stated, denounced the Vietnam war and accused white Americans of being responsible for the slaughter of Mexican-Americans and Negroes in Vietnam and for the murder of Rev. Martin © Luther King. Lozada gtated he was leaving Texas because treedom of speech no longer exists in that state and intends to go to California where an individual can benectly express nimself., On May 3, 1966, advised that the telephone number Se re- cently moved to San Juan, Texas, is\ST 7-5421 and the address is 103 West Fifth St. We °°: that the organization is also often referred ‘ts members as theNValley Service Committee and“€olonias del Valle. Ga’ «<° that Jose .: la‘Rosa resigned his position as t urer of he organization and fs quite disgruntled because he believes Kev. Edgar\Krueger and Froben Lozada were "leading him on" and were not going to help him join. VISTA. MES farther noted that many of the members of the Valley Community Service joined that group because they believed it was affiliated with, or was a prerequisite for, VISTA, lso advised that Jose la Rosa had informed’ Alm wien he and four other members the group made the recent Florida trip, they had gone to the florida Christian Migrant Minority Office at Bartow, Florida, where Rev. Ben Fraticelli was director, a :*-: that De la Rosa was very coniusing in his des “the Florida trip