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IInjunction HearingAgainst Pickets SetALICE, Tex. lt;AP) — Hearings yer Chris Dixie and union lawyer on two request* for injunctions Doran Williams. Morris Atlas, aViagainst picketing by a farm la- McAllen lawyer, represents La• bor union in Starr County are to Casita.r be held in 79th district court Members of the fledgling farm , here Friday. labor union have picketed near P*, Dist. Judge C Woodrow the entrance of La Casita and, Laughlin said a hearing on a re- at the packing shed on numerous s|, , quest for an injunction filed by occasions since beginning an or- ,h , the Missouri Pacific Railroad is ganizatkmal drive in Starr Coun- . to be held at 1 p.m. The re- ty last June. utquest asks that the judge order Union pickets were posted fathe United Farm Workers Or- along the Missouri Pacific Rail- paganizing Committee, AFL-CIO, road tracks at Rio Grande City. re* not to picket freight trains leav- Mission, Alamo and Harlingen)tingfrom Ro Grande City. several times during the past Thesecond hearing, scheduled month. The union said the picket m ® to begin at the conclusion of the line along the railroad tracks hiI first one, is on an injunction re- was an attempt to ask union toII quest filed by La Casita Farms train crews not to haul ship- at 8 Inc., the largest farm in Starr ments of melons from La Casita re •iCounty. to mart eta. jThe request filed b^La Casita The railroad's court action to► on June 2 asks that the union be asks for an injunction againstMordered not to picket near the the union because the railroad i*) farm or the farm's packing shed is not involved in any labor dis-’* at Rio Grande City. Ipute with the California - basedthclt;olaihiLawyers for the farm said in union. Hie Missouri • Pacific pe-the court action that no employ- tition also stated that the picket-* es of La Casita are union mem- ing had cost the railroad a large £ v bers and the picketing was ille- sum of money because they have * gal. had to place railroad detectivess- The request said no bona fide and guards on the market-bound g labor dispute exists and alleged trains.that the farm is losing $1,000 dai- j The union seeks union con w ly in irreparable damages. tracts and a minimum wage of h id Union officials said they will $1.25 an hour for stoop labor in ^tr____..i I I t » A 1 C*.4.. t __
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Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 16, 1967
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