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ee ~ - ole. oo _— One of the ranch's |: dusters ' was at this time du. oe" a nearby field and c circling right over_t.e picketers and the house dn ion and making ‘ much more noise th{ $ail the picketers and PA Were together (Cropduster #845280) At the group of picketers-about 1/4 mile away one of the sheriffs went up and took.the names and addresses of all the picketers and warned them about using the small hand megaphone (which couldn't even be heard at the houses tnvolved because I stood tn the road in front of the house - and could hear nothing from the other group. When asked why he was taking ~~~ mames the officer said a complaine had been filed. If asked ff ft had =~ ~~ heen filed that morning he did not reply. Lt. Lane said that the complaint had.not yet been filed but would be if we used the PA system. Lane himself said to me that if he lived in that house he would file a complaint just for being there and shouting to the workers and that he would have each . member of the household file a complaint against each one of the strikers. 1 - = ry i a WV ound 6:15 the Je engines and againg the engines. t ke Field about I mile away started firing Up their ets at Lu tar you could hardly hear the strikers aboverthe roar of 1 co Later Lt. Lane said “Those damn Filipinos already went into the field $o I don't care what they do. J know what I would do if I lived there. - Jim Rutkowski (July 1, 1969 AYound 6 a.m, I was picketint at an entrance to Bodine Ranch with Elias Talavera and George. The main body of picketers had moved to another | : entrance about 1/2 mile away. Officer E.C. Price was sitting fn his car 9 ----~- aa parked on the opposite side of the road. A small panel truck pulied up and ~~ ; parked about 30 feet behind Price and four Anglo teen-age boys got out and « - started into the field at the entrance where we werer picketing. I walked oc up to them and asked if they had come to work there. They stopped and we answered yes they had. I asked if theyknew there was a strike going on. . ass They looked confused so I asked 4f they knew what a strike was. One of Chea os ee, Be : _ the boys answered “no” So I pointed to the body of picketers and told the © SS : boys theyr. were grape workers who had left the field and started to ex- 0 RRR: i plain further. At thet time Price came across the road and stepped right peed i -- between me and the boys. He did not wait to listen. but immediately asked Sige St ' them “Did you boys come here to work" They said ye. He then nodded to one ©-+* *.. { of the guards inside the gate and said sternly “J&at’s the man you want to <7 =" ' gee™* The boys obviously took this as an order and immediately w walked ever _ = =a = - -to the guard who directed them furhter into the field. . von Fete a se eae to: 06s J then asked Price why he had come over and frightened the boys a away. He - = pa “ ~ - BnSwered that there was no law against him coming to listen to what ¥ sais. == "J told him again that I was only taling to the boys and that he had no-right --_- to order the boys into the field. I again asked him why he did 4t. die .. aren ecame defensive and said, -e didn't have to answer r any questions “and weturned Neb - fo his Loe ae oS = Albe allindo {June 26) PRIX = 2 Ree At abdut 10 a.m. Twas asked by & high school students who had walked out of =~ J.G. Boswell Ranch if I couldn't help them get their paychecks. The standard —2— polich has been to tontact Lt. Land and he would go through the appropriate “* eae _ procedures of contacting the rancher. “The boys told me Lt. Lane was going to. = -meet them at 10 a.m. end as he hadn't arrived yet J took one student over to == ~. officer Pitts and Stanley and explained the situation. 1 then asked 4f they ===> Sep: pouldn’t call Lt. Lane, ey Said there was ‘no way for them to contact ” eee aed Tt am cnre re we a i een a A “+ a