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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to San Antonio, Texas File Ne June 28, 1966 = 4 é PROPOS MARCH FROM RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS, TO AUSTIN, TEXAS, BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL FARM WORKERS ASSOCIATION The June 28, 1966, edition of The Valley Mornin Star, a daily newspaper published at Harlingen, Texas, Contained an article captioned, "Melon Pickers Talk of March on Austin." This article was datelined Rio Grande City. This article reads as follows: Union support for cugnskCion' National Ti / Farm Workers Association Local Ne~ 2 of Starr County grew Monday after receiving backing at a meat cutters 7 L convention in Harlingen Sunday. Plans for a Farm ’ ‘orkers march from Rio Grande City to Austin were also in the talking stage. , i e g stage tif Nelson said that fo: vans of Austin, Secretary- Treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO, had agreed to provide ~ $250 needed as a deposit for a telephone et NFWA Headquarters in Rio Grande City. Evans was one of several labor chiefs from around the nation who met with Valley Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workers Union of North America when it pledged suppert for the Starr County farm picketers,. At the meeting in Harlingen, the union voted to donate $300 to the NFWA local. Announcement of the’ additional 3250 came Honday. COPIES DRATROYED oTtFEB Q 1971 ENCLOSD.” age)