REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Alhority Stateletter Inhz ay me, NARA Dato 2498 fashion. Speeches of a mildly Communistic nature were made by several of the Party leaders, including Manuel Mora and Carmen Lyra (pen name of Isabel Carvajal. The police have informed me that the organizers of the mass meeting, as well as the speakers and the leaders, were all costa Rican citizens.
During the month of November, there has been unrest among the working classes which is to be attributed, in part, to the activities of the Workers and Peasants Party leaders. These latter have been vitalized through attacks on President Jiménez by those political interests which are opposed to him, with the subject of the Exchange Control Board as lever. Block advertisements have been printed in two of San José papers appealing to the laborers for the maintenance of the Exchange control Board as a protection against the sgrasping capitalists. These same advertisements have carried derogatory remarks concerning the President, accusing him of being out of sympathy with the poor classes.
Some unruly elements, particularly in the rural districts, have taken advantage of the situation to make written (anonymous) threats upon the persons of the larger land owners and commit acts of petty vandalism. It is questioned that regular members of the Workers and Peasants Party are directly associated with the above.
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