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( - oO - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . . FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Los Angeles, California - : 1965 : COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION On September 8, 1965, the Agricultural Workers ' Organizing Committee (AWOC), AFI-CIO with headquarters in Washington, D. C., declared a-sstrike against the grape growers in Tulare and Kern Counties, California, with 72 Filipino grape pickers participating. On Sep- tember 19, 1965, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) also joined this strike, which then brought the ifexican and Puerto Ricans into this matter. The purpose of the strike was supposedly to increase the wages of the grape pickers. Actually, there are very few farm workers on ' strike at this time and, in fact, even with the strike, more grapes have been shipped from Kern and Tulare Counties this year than in 1964, | At the peak of the strike, during the end of September, 1965, he estimated that only about 800 farm workers at most, out of about 5000 workers, were actually on strike in the immediate Delano and adjoining Tulare County area. At the beginning of the strike, persons on Aan) , sasFes vit | icc ENGT Asta5 ‘ Aeon