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Victor Riesel--9/25/74 Page 2 xx x West, HY - r Europe, successfully winning support from powerful transport \ unions and laborite municipal and national governments. Chaves bh tackled the 0.5. government, charging a conspiracy be n the Immigration and Maturalization Service (INS) and the Teamaters has zesulted in the illegal inflow of alien Mexican workera into the 0.5. to take jobs from his members, break his strike and ash his boycott. This has been sharply rejected and denied by ins Commissioner ters. Leonard Chapman. And of course by the Te But why picket the Conference of Christians and Jews as Chavez's people did the other night? Because the crusading conference was honoring Robert F. Longacre, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc.--that's why. Its stores sell “double horse” lettuce--the symbol 4s the traditional Teamsters union trademark. The pickets, run by the Women For Action, some carrying United Farm Workers signs, were shouting against “scab” lettuce, a anding the salad greens and grapes carry the black Aztec eagle emblem of Cesar Chavez's farm workers. Last Tuesday I was alongside the noisy pickets’ circle outside the dot American® here and heard them heap dmprecations and vituperation’ not only upon the man receiving a Brotherhood award, but upon his enterprises, the food they sell--the whole thing. Well, that’s their privilege, This is » free country. Freedom of speech is inherent, But it goes two ways. Towards the end of the evening, a group peeled off the [03 ~-noRE--