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r. ot ™ U. C.. STATES DEPA MENT OF O:. me FEDERAL SUREAU UF INVUSTIGATION r 7 Chiesgn, tMllivois fn rele Meee sey November 27, 1970 NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION (NFWA) A source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised on Noveuber 13, 1970, that Cesar Chavez, the leader of the National Farm Yorkers Association (FEA), would be in Chicago, Illinois on Noverber 14, 1970, to lead a picket demonstration of the Nationa: Tea Company, 740 ‘vest Diversey Avenue, Chicago, starting at 10:00 A.M., November 14, 1970, to protest the sale of non-union picked lettuce by the National Tea Company. The source further advised Chavez would speak before Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, on November 14, 1970, to solicit the support of Operation Brea’ basket of the NFWA'S boycott of non-union picked lettuce. Cn November 14, 1970, the weekly meeting of Oper-ats Breadbaisket was broadcast on ridio : tation VON, Chicas:2, Illinois. In this brordcast, which wis monitored by 2 S:7c* Agent of the Federal Bureau of Invest. sation, tae followin: statements were mace: Cesar Chavez, who was introcuced by Jesse Jackson, National Director of Operation Breadb: cket, stated the NFvA sponsored strike against the grape gresers brought a unior to the farm workers, Chavez stated now the battle con UES in other areas, boycotting lettuce, bcsause these workers neec the same protection that only a i.iton can give then. Choven stated the “poor must fight to; sther”™ and called upen Operation Breadbasket to support the \*WwA Picket of the National Tea Company. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.