REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Mhz öy ML, NARA 02:0 24581 effect the gradual departure from the country in small numbers rather than the abrupt expulsion of the entire 200 men and women (more or less) who are said to make up. 818. 5o4 13 the party. referred to in my despatch No. 303 of February 20, 1931, appears to have brought satisfactory results.
Only a few of the so called Polacos are to be seen now in San José, and only occasionally does one hear of the complaint so common formerly of the sharp practices in the interior, where, ostensibly as pedalars, they are said to have attempted to sprgad communistic doctrine.
818. vo 146 In my despatch No. 311 of February 26, 1931, stated that four deportees having been refused permission to land at Cristobal, were being returned to Costa Rica. Among these four was one MANUEL GUTIERREZ, a Spaniard. These four and most ol the others have since left the country, some of them having been carriež to small coast villages near the borders and allowed to shirt for themselves. few of these later are believe a to have been responsible for the strike and trouble among the United Fruit Company laborers in the Chiriquí district of Panama a short time ago. At any rate, within a few days after these men had been turned adrilt headed south near the Panama border on the Pacific coast, these troubles in the Chiriquí district commenced. The United Fruit Company officials here are convinced that these men were responsible.
It may be recalled that in my same despatch No. 311 stated that the United Fruit Company had been specifically singled out as one of the objects of general attack which