Mr. President. I must express my deep concern over the reports of violence and collusion against striking farmworkers in the Salinas Valley in California. The organizing effort of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee is one of the few hopeful movements which promises to end the exploitation of our most powerless citizensthe migrant and seasonal farmworker. Powerful forces seem determined to perpetuate that powerlessness and to deny these workers the right to select the union of their own choice. I am disturbed by the following reports of violence. intimidation. and harassment from Salinas: That the general counsel of UFWOC. Jerry Cohen. was beaten unconscious and sustained a concussion and other serious injuries when he was trying to protect the lives and safety of striking farmworkers.