REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inhz eyme, NARA Date 24981 Enclosure No. to Despatch No. 919, dated June 1, 1932.
MEMORANDUM ON COMMUNISM The morning press of May 27, 1932, carried considerable publicity on a meeting of the Communist party of San José held yesterday evening in the party headquarters facing the Porfirio Brenes School. The crowd in attendance, estimated at 1000 persons, was too large for the meeting room and speeches were made in the street by Guillermo Fernandez, Jaime Cerdas, Luis Carballo and Manuel Mora. The principal purpose of the meeting was to consider two projects which the party hopes to present soon to Congress: the first, a project requiring the fixing by a committee of women of a minimum wage, and the second involving unemployment aid, through funds obtained either by a moratorium on the foreign debt or levies on capital.
The press reported that the party intended to continue evening meetings until sufficient supporters were lined up to organize a large parade through the city advocating these two points of their program.
It was also stated that communists from the provinces would be brought in for the occasion to swell the numbers. special detail of police maintained order at the meeting held last night, which broke up with the singing