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Cesar Chavez — Part 1

101 pages · May 24, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Cesar Chavez · 101 pages OCR'd
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—e 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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