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aay on U=TED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 1) STICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ‘ San Antonio, Texas In Reply, Ploase Refer wo File No May 16, 1967 UNITED FARM WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (UFWOC) MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING a The May 12, 1967, edition of the Valley Evening Monitor, a daily newspaper published at McAllen, Texas, Carried an artical pertaining to "Mexican Green Card Holders," who have been working in the cantelope harvest at Rio Grande City, Texas, and who on the previous day had refused to enter the United States because of a picket line on the Mexican side of the border composed of members of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), Some 100 of these workers entered the U. S. to work after the picket line dispersed. ' Mgr The article quoted UFWOC spokesman as having said they had telegraphed President LYNDON B. JOHNSON to request investigation of the Texas Rangers, as Rangers had "shoved" several union members and were strike breakers, err eee mm On M 7 A advise eader o e UFWOC at Rio Grande City, had been arrested the previous day after having threatened Texas Rangers by stating there would be some dead rangers unless they left the UFWOC pickets alone. NELSON was immediately taken before ‘a Justice of the Peace who set bond at $2 9000, He was remanded to the Starr County Jail in lieu ° nd. The May 16, 1967, edition of The Valley Mornin Star, a daily newspaper published at Harlingen, Texas carries an artical captioned "Complaint Filed Against Ranger“ which states Reverend ED KRUEGER of Edinburg, Texas, and one DAVID LOPEZ, a member of the UFWOC, had filed @ complaint at Rio Grande City, Texas, the previous day against Texas Ranger JACK VAN CLEVE which alleged the Ranger shoved them during a demonstration at the International COP ICS Hen yee