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:. c fED STATES DEPARTMENT OF (ice FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Ploase Refer to Miami, Florida File No.157-NEW October 20, 1972 REs POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE BETWEEN UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION (UFW) AND FLORIDA SUGAR CANE GROWERS, CLEWISTON, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 1972 CIVIL UNREST at vine On October 5, 1972 advis there is currently developing a situation which could result in violence between the United Farm Workers (UFW) and the Plorida Sugar Cane Growers, The UFW is a National Labor Union led by CESAR SHAVEZ, who has gained national attention in the past for a “grape boycott” in California, which he organized. The largest company of the Sugar Cane Growers is United States Sugar Corporation headquartered in Clewiston, Florida, Emotions will probably run very high and violence could occur over labor organizing and the crossing of picket lines. The principal element of the dispute is the demand on the part of the UFW that the Sugar Cane Growers hire domestic instead of foreign labor. The Sugar Growers have insisted that domestic labor has traditionally refused to work in the cane fields forcing the companies to import Jamaican labor. According to the September 24, 1972, issue of the "Palm Beach Post-Times" a daily newspaper published in West Palm Beach, Florida, approximately 9,000 workers will be required to harvest the sugar cane for seven companies / EOL. -L7- Ab5Y