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Victor Riesel- 1/16/74 _ “page 3 xx x uniod label. The Teamsters pack their produce under the equally known twin horse head and wheel, symbol of the union now almost 100 years old. In the past the Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church moved for similar support of the UFW label. Thus Chavez, having been to the summit, and with other religious leaders backing him--though not quite unanimously--returned to the U.S. He sped to the national AFL-CIO headquarters, reported he was "inspired." Then he fiew back to California to plan strategy with his own high command for a renewed battle with the Teamsters for leadership of some 50,000 field workers-- now mostly in the IBT which, with 2.2 million members, is the free world's biggest union. Its general president Frank Fitzsimmons, himself a devout Catholic, charges the Chavez boycott is failing in America and thus the latter has had to turn to European leaders for support. It apparently has been a successful temporal as well as spiritual turn. Chavez had a long talk with the full “Executive” of the --MORE~-