REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter lahz fy me NARA Date 24 981 even tenor on their alves.
It has is the laas atrika to any consequenes to be reQoxded in the district odeurked on the banana Tos around Siquixras during the third quarter of tho. yemw 1928. malcontents aroused the Laborers and agitated surfactantly to cause a general strike for higher wages. This atxike, which occurred during Costa Riana golden era, lasted for several weeks and was broken up only: arter the ringleaders had been disaned from furthor employment in that exa. This is the only instance in the history of the distriot where any sonderted or organized strike has been sallad for inorennox in wages and its railure was due partly to the lack of convietion on the part of the laboring WassOs that they were in any way entitled to the increased romuneration demandea.
Ano ther more potent reason for the failure of this strike was the poor organization and preparation to succeperully withstand along beige or unemployment. Laok a leaders, and the inability to organ1xe into a closely knit federation of labor or to establish an adequate sinking Fund to be used for the maintenance of the laborers during the progress of strikes the long been a characteristic of the distriotis: laboringa ol abses: co torty solos. The first out 1a wages took place during 1931, among the asevedores and banana Loaders on the soape wharves. This waa the first intimation that they were to be affected by the steadily developing worla