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Victor Riesel--10/16/74 - Page 5 x x x has, 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. Thus in 1973, the UFW reported it took in$4,347,375, It 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 i