REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Mhz ey MLNARI Date 24581 ENCLOL TO DESPATCH NO. 12. DATED. JAN 1995 American Legation, San José, Costa Rica, January 23, 1933.
ACARA MARRIMANE CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM There has been an increase in the activities of the Communist Party in costa Rica during the past two months, and especially since two candidates of the Workers and Peasants Party were elected to the San José Municipal Council on December 4, 1932 (vide despatch No.
818. 101 1224 dated December 8, 1932. An indication of the extent of the campaign being fostered by the Communists is the fact that the local organ of the Party, IRABAJO, has been published and distributed on the streets of the capital more regularly than formerly. Its edition of January 14, 1933, two copies of which are enclosed herewith, contained a bitter editorial against the so called Socialist Party of Costa Rica and other countries.
This editorial was brought about by recent publications in the San José press to the effect that the workers of San José are organizing a socialist Party.
TRABAJO admits the attempted formation of the new political group, expresses no surprise, and states that it will be organized by such traitors to the masses as General Jorge volio and Alejandro Aguilar Machado.
The Municipality of San José and the Government of the Republic are severely criticized in headlines in the January 14th edition, as follows:In Public Works, many laborers were left without jobs, and the salaries of others were reduced thirty per cent. And Leonidas Pacheco spent sixteen thousand colones on his fruitless trip to Guatemala, and the Executive six thousand on a banquet to the diplomatsit.
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