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her ——- ee ee ee ne ~_ - Victor Ried . -- 4/14/75 x x x (UFW-A.. 10) Page 2 and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. It appears to some observers that Cesar Chavez is molding a political movement among the nation's Chicanos -~ some estimate them at 12 million -- just as the late Martin Luther King, Jr. attempted to build a national black political movement. Chavez is on his own “Camino" (road). True, the boycott of grape and lettuce growers now under contract with the teamsters keeps rolling along. But Chavez's singling out the E. and J. Gallo Winery (the country's largest) is open defiance of most of the labor movement and the nation's labor laws. A boycott of Gallo wines has not been approved by the national AFL-CIO leadership. It has not been condoned by labor leader George Meany. Gallo long ago signed with three AFL-CIO unions and the Teamsters. The company can legitimately claim to be all union. Yet Chavez has launched a national attack upon the winery. Chavez didn't show at the AFL-CIO midwinter high command session in Bal Harbour, Fla. Chavez hasn't been in regular, if any communication with Meany or other // /