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Cesar Chavez — Part 16
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Victor Riesel--10/16/74 _ Page 5
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been urging them to organize regional boycotts as did
the Massachusetts rabbis.
There is no doubt of the enormity of this coming
battle. AFL-CIO president George Meany has been
flaying the Teamsters. He and Leonard Woodcock's United
Auto Workers have been supplying Chavez with the
logistics needed by the tiny union. During 1973, the
AFL-CIO taxed itself $1.5 million for the UFW. The
auto workers leaders, who helped on Chavez's technical
European trip needs with routing and door-opening all
the way from Scandinavia to Dusseldorf, Germany,
contributes $10,000 weekly to the black Eagle: banner.
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2nUS 2h tera, THE UEwW FeEPported 1 COOK 11 94,3594 goo,
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spent $5,207,699.
On Jan. 1, 1974,it had some $259,000 in cash bank
accounts. So it's in the red. But many of the AFL-CIO
unions are quietly contributing more money than boycott
pickets. Thus reports that the UFW and its campaign are
dead are exaggerated.
It's not quite certain what the Teamster reaction -
will be. It can counterthrust. It can stay silent. It
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