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a dan ee ee ee a he elem cei 5 Lint, “wll nip aedahlied tute hee aE G " unnciow: SUSJECTS s ValfeD Fulli Wonhkuns - VICTIMS CIVIL RIGO: CIVIL NICHTS Act J f This strike received nationwide publi cety and Cesar Chavez travele’ to Washington, D.C. fi Bonoeaces purpese of contacting Cmegressnen me such YU enators Bs Edward Kennedy. Georegpetiney Fresicent ‘of the ATL-CiG, anncunced that his*unicn was backing its j union affiliate, the UF, with.e 1.6 million dollar strike func and rang itzsimaons , President, I jternational ‘) rotherhoog of Tearsters, made public statements defendimy— | F We position of his union. ~ . During the initial stages of the strike a civil court order was issued by Indio Superior Court Judge Fre2l Metheny yhich detailed strike pro oe on picket-:. The "Press Enterprise", Riverside, California, in an article on Pare B-l in its issue of April 28, 1973, reported that eight Coachelia Valley grape growers were named defencants in a $32,025,000 lawsuit filed in Buperior « Court, Indio, by the UFW on April 27, 1973. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants "maliciously and without justification, entered into a conspiracy and systemized campaign of terrorisn, intimication, threats, assaults, battcries and coercion to forcefully prevent" the UFi "fron exercising their Constitutional rights of free speech and expression". According to the article the suit was a cross- complaint to earlier legal action taken by the growers end asked for actual camages of 425,000 pius exerxplary ‘| ani punitive damages totaling 32 million dollars. \ . . oad a Be: ‘eS ts WET eget a! ee oe ae