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' Mel Huey )(June vf ‘2 69) © The cars of the strikers were parked along the side of a dirt county road om q@here we had been picketing. They were at] facing in the same direction. fy When we decided to move to another field I stationed myself at the head of the chain of cars and began directing them to all turn off onto the side of the road where there was a kind of cul-de-sac sc that they could al} turn around with as little cor‘usion and danger as possible. Gustavo Gutierrez was standing about in the middle of the cul-de-sac also directing —— traffic, At no time did any officer apptoach me and tell me that I was wiolating any law by standing in the road directing our cars. Shor“ly 1 heard Gus yel] to me but I could not hear what he was -saying, Lt. Lane was with him, He yelled again and again I coutcn't hear him so I started to walk toward him to see what I wanted. When I was about half way to him Lt. Lene stopped me and told me I was under arrest, That was the first time I had been told that I could possibly have been violating any laws.As it was Lt. Lane had told Gus that I shouldn't have been there and that was why Gus yelled at me, but I never had a chance to find out what he wanted, I was then handcuffed and placed under arrest. Note: At Mel's trial Dept. Robt Case Star, the arresting officer, testified - that Huey was attempting to stop traffic, was an extreme traffic hazard, veeminmenites and had been warned several times to get out of the road. He also tes= . tified that he was bloocking traffic at the time he was apprehended. How- ever it was an out of the way dirt road and the only cars in the, vicinity were those of the picketers and the sheriffs’ vehicles. - _ aurghover (July 4, 1969) p PEG ae The sheriff stopped Joe, one cr the strtke the strikers, on Cactus Lane. Mel and 1 - were walking farther down Cactus Lane to go talk to other work crews farther down the road. The officer yelled to us whor we were about 40 feet from thes - to “stop and don't go any farther.“ When hz said this he was standing in the middle of the road with his hand on his gu-n. We told him we were just : ‘going farther down the road to Picket and he again said no.“ I then said ~~ fr other words you're saying we can't picket. He replied “I just seid stay there.” I asked him for his badge number and name and he said he'd give it to me . athen he finished. “They kept Joe about 15 minutes and finally gave hima ___ -vepair order. I asked the officer.again for his name and aumber and he walked over to the other sheriff and asked him something. Then he turned to me and said “Forget it." I asked him what te said and he again replied - ~ *I said forget it.* He then got in his car and left without giving me _. ° the information. Lowest a wee Pauly Chavez (July 7, 1969) ° Loe Lo eo ae - We were picketing the Santa’ Fe , pattroad in ‘the evening in an attempt to ° Stop the train from going through to pick up grapes. Officer Fred Burrows . = (Badge # 250), of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Dept drove his car up on © the pickets as they marked on public property. Officer C.M. Hoagluno = (#357) drove his car up from the other side closing the gap resulting ain the pickets having to move to the pther side of the road. The it. an sae sie oa sharge was J. Hi)). Tats happened at 8:25 pw. : > eaiesnaann atidiat teenie tatedithdieteitamadil aamaiinae Sais DAP : a