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______ ie Gnkuown SubjeTs ; ae or © YuiTod Fre m Woekens- Wein ———<— bear Ar. I am sorry for the slight delay is responding to your request of July 4, 1973 for further information on illegal attacks en the United Farm Workers in the Coachella Valley of California. I had sent a telegran on June 29, 1973 to Mr. Wilifen Ruckelshaus, Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation ta dD. Tequesting an investigation of thes: attacks Pers Ysrters. thich were then tetas Yara “orkers, which wers then Seing reported re the daily press. . a wm HL In response to your request for further inferaation, I Rave learned of the following incidents im late Junes 1, June 21, 1973: A citrus rach forenan, mistaken ty Teanster “organisers” for a farmworker, was run eff the Toad, pulled from his pickup, beaten, and stebbved, 2. June 22, 1973: Teamsters or Teanster agents set fire in a midnight attack to the house trailer of Fancisco Campos, a migrant farmvorker from Texas, 3, Sune 22, 1973: Teansters or their agents driving @ flat bed truck forced a United Fare Worker ériven car off the read and smashed it with large recka in front of ye Sheriff's deputies who arrested thesz for felonious assault, 4, Jane 23, 1973: Over 200 Teanster-hired agents ambushed @ group of striking United Fare Worker Menbers and Riverside County Sheriffs with baseball dats, ice picks, and chains, sending several to ¥. wo Ali but 18 escaped arrest by "5 S, June 25, 1973: A car with United Farm Worker menbers— inside was forced off the road, the women thrown to Bhe Sidé, - while Teanster-hired agents attacked the men with Be: Rn ee 6, June 25, 1973 Roving gangs of SO or more Teanster attacked farmvorkers as well as some United Caurch wt @lergynen who witnessed the attacks. . a