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wate heem Dya!90 Ed, 4-26-45) TO FROM te — UNITED ST) &S SOVF’NMENT 7 >) * "PARTMENT, OF Justi Memoranaum March 15, 39€ Director DATE: Federal Bureau of Investigation FMV: BEC: srt Fred M. Vinson, Jr. 144-74-835 Assistant Attorney General G4 Criminal Division ped if) Unknown Subjects - Possible ge Violations of 18 U.S.C. 1951 Reports have come to our attention regarding incidents of violence in connection with efforts to organize farm workers in Rio Grande City, near Corpus ( Christi, Texas. According to a February 24, 1967, story in the Harlingen. Texas LLEY MORNING STAR, on( February 22. a truck owned by La Casita Farms, Inc., carrying produce to a broker buying vegetabies for the U.S. Army, was "run off" the road by three persons jn) another vehicle. Persons subsequently arresitcd~bx local authorities on charges relating to this incident have been identified as individuals recent}yjarrested in conjunction with denonstrations for -the United Farm Workers Organizing Connittee €UFWOC). La Casita Farms { Feportedly has been the target of a UFWOC campaign to * organize agricultural laborers in Rio Grande City. , An editorial of Decenber 30, 1966, in LA ~ j VERDAD, a Spanish-English weekly newspaper published ain. Corpus Christi, also nakes reference to "recent violent erruptions" in Rio Grande City regarding labor organi ing difficulties anon; the far: workers of the Rio Grande Valley. We would appreciate being advised oF the situation gencrally and of the particular acts ot violence which have come to your attention. We wild then be in. a position to determine what, if any, invem! gation should be undertaken. “Suse