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Cesar Chavez — Part 17

101 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jul 8, 1973 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Cesar Chavez · 99 pages OCR'd
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. es, ( ent wr July 11, 1973 William De. Ruckelshaus Acting Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D.C, 20535 Dear Mr. Ruckelshaus: lurge you as Acting Director of the F.B.1. to investigate cent developments in the dispute between the Teamsters and the nited Farm Workers in California's Coachella Valley. a The violence of the strike has so escalated over the past month that a federal investigation is certainly inorder. The eye-witness accounts from working in the Valley, as well as accounts of we other in the area, are ample evidence that the vw Teamsters have unleashed a violent attack on the United Farm Workers. If the present situation continues to grow worse, we will have many more people injured or perhaps killed. I look to the Department of Justice, and particularly the F,B.1,, ( to uphold the law. The tactics that have been used in the strike are -¢ ro. ee ’ ed without question against the law. I hope that you will prove that no one, not even the Teamsters, is beyond the law, As a Christian who is in the sit bre by the injustice of tion I urge you to send investigators to Coachella. Thank you for your immediate consideration of this matter. ar
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