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down there is this sort of thing going on Still. It's pretty bad in wherever we have large picket lines in Mendota is an example, which is Fresno County. We've had incidents last sunday where, uhh, the growers are well armed now there there there bearing arms. And

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last sunday we had an incident when two of our pickets were forced to kneel on the pavement by three growers or three grower supervisors in plain view of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department, but they wouldn't even move to arrest them. We have the pretty bad situation

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still in current and in, in Fresno County and into Larry County. Uh, the picket lines aren't what they used to be there, not as large, but we were to put up large picket lines we get will be, we we would be faced with the same repression

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we had last year. So one of the reasons we're not having large picket lines is because of the fear that they'll do what they did to us last year. So, so they were effective in their in their attempts to break the strike. Well, to see it's

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a lot easier because once the an official body of the city or the county or the state endorses the boycott, then it's a lot easier for us to deal with the public and deal with all the questions that are asked. The the it's great, it's very,

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very useful to us because then we can use this to convince the public that we're right. And it's of course, it has an awful lot of impact and make things a lot easier for us. So, we value those, uh, endorsements very much. They mean an awful

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lot to us have any more.