REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter whe by ME, NART Date 24981. No Labor taxeat in the Limon Conaulan Distriat.
American consulate at Port Limon, Costa Rica.
March 31, 1933. CONFIDENCIAL SEORTON 100 A relatively small pe roantage of the district 1 aboring classes have heard of communion and it is doubtful whether that minority fully understand the meaning of the term. Yurthe rmore, with the majority of the laborera scattered throughout the countryside on snall farms, it would be airflow to draw. large crowds to any one apot who would be disposed to listen to aone oap box orator informe them of the manner where by they might easily lose their jobs. There is a laporeris olub in Port Limon called the Hermandad de Traba jadores (Brothorhood of Laborars. whoso President, Filiberto Barboza, runs a butoher abop, and whose Secretary, Jose Chavez, 1e the local agent for the newspaper La Tribuna.
This club is the only known Laborer organization in Port Linon, and it has never taken aty publie action which might snack or communism. WE a a 16 Occasionally communist 16 aders in Costa Rica appear in Port Liron to agt tato. Among then the ICTfollowing names appear: 0 min Jonquia calvo. Lara, amei o JOB Coronel.
or the couunist agitators to appear in Port (Limon, it would appear that Joaquin Calvo is their leader.