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Cesar Chavez — Part 1
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FORT STOCKTON (Stalf) —
Thirteen persons, including
Unued Farm Workers union
: sympathizers and two Austin
‘men who were filming &
documentary, were arrested by
Reeves and Pecos County
sheriff's deputies on a private
road aout three miles
southeast of Coynosa this
morning in the third straight
y cay of flareups between
lawmen and uolon
t Stockton was expected te
ave charges of criminal
3 resp2ss filed with ber agains!
ceameem the 13 persons and oonds of $400
Ge cn e3ch person were expected
+ to be set later today.
Pecos County Sheriff Pete
Ten Cyck said that the 13 were
rested shortly after 7 a.m,
7 today on a private road at the
y Jom Burkholder farm after the
-" [sympathizers got out of their
f | [cars u preparation to talk to
‘i canta.oupe pickers working in
-$:he fields nearby. ‘
PP Ten Eyck said the 13 wert
mY arrested “as soon as (hey go’.
.out oi their cars.” ‘
Jim Harrington, an attorney
ai from Hidalgo who has beech
observing the union action for
- the past several days, said the
awmen “pushed around’’ those
= arrested before loading them
into the seven or eight patrot
‘ars sent to the scene.
Among those arrested were
Roger Manne and Andy Snyder,
rs of an Austin crew
ing the action for a»
docuniental¥. 2. ee
“They grabbed hold of them
anid Look Roger's tape recorder
away from him,” Harrington
Said, though he believes the
camera Was not confiscated.
Ten Eyck said no recording
or filming equipment was
confiscated but did say two men
“who were down there filming
everything,’ were arrested
along with the 11 others.
Harrington said two juvenile
girls were alsa arrested, but
Ten
harge.
« "They were picked up in the
riddle of a public read, as soon
4s they got our of their cars.”,
Narrington said. "They didn't
have time to do anything,”
Ten Eyck said the road was a
private drive to the Burkholder
Farm.
Harrington said the Jawmen
were “devided about evenly”
between Reeves and Pecos
County deputies, but Ten Eyck
said most of the men were from
Pecos County and ‘‘only a
couple’ were from Reeves
County.
Deputies In both counties
have been taking @ tough stand
against the demonstrators after
27 persons including eight
juveniles were arrested early
Wednesday on a farm near
Verhalen, south of Pecos in
Reeves County.
All 27 have been, released,
with Une Tast 16 being reiéaséd
UWIKNOWN MEMBERS OF UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION
From the Odessa-American July 25, 1975:
‘on bonds by Odessa attorney
Warren Burnett ‘Thursday.
Burnett has been retained to
defend all those arrested and
said today that be or someone
frorn his office will be driving
to Pecos this morning.
Ten Eyck said “there we
workers out in the fields" this
morning “but none of them
came over to see what was
going on” when the 13 Persons
ested.
igtan said (wo ur ibree!
of the persons arrested this
™Morning were arrested in
group of 27 persons Wednesd;
and had just been released from|
jail Thursday,
Ten Eyck satd he didn't know}
if any of those arrested in bis}
county this morning had been)
arretéd before of Dal
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