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MCE 1 . aS . . G - @ Uindiow SU ECTS VuITED Fall! WoRKENS - VICTINS CIVIL RIGHTS: CIVIL NICHTS Act ( This strile received nationwide publicity and Cesar Chavez traveled to Washington, D.C. for the ponounces purpese of contacting Cm; regsmen a) such enators es Edward Kennedy. Georg “ANCY y Fresicent —— j of the ATL-CIGy anncunced that his*unicn was backing its }union affiliate, the UFW, with.a 1.6 million dollar strike func and Frans tzsimnons, President, International rotherhooG of Teamsters, made public statements defer We position of his union. ~ . During the initial stages of the strike a civil court order was issued by Indio Superior Court Judge Frei Metheny yhich detailed strike on picke The "Press Enterprise", Rivers ide, California, in an article on Page B-1 in its "issue of April 28, 1973, reported that eight Coachelia.Valley grape growers were named defendants in a $32,025,000 lawsuit filed in Buperior «Court, Indio, by the UF on April 27, 1973. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants "maliciously and without justification, entered into a conspiracy and systemized campaign of terrorism, intinication, threats, assaults, battcries and coercion to forcefully prevent” the UFi "fron exercising their Constitutional rights of free speech and expression". : : According to the article the suit was a cross- complaint to earlier legal action taken by the growers end asked for actual camages of $25,000 pius exexplary ani punitive damages totaling 32 million dollars. \