REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Wahz Sy me NARS Cz! 24181 The communist weekly TRABAJO has not failed to lay the blame for the clash between unemployed and the police on the Government. It condemned the officials for attempting to prevent hungry laborers from petitioning for work, and urged the policemen, who are also of the laboring class. not to carry out the orders of their superiors against their brothers. At a meeting held at the communist club in San Jose on the night of June 3d last, a speaker mentioned the incident of May 22nd and stated that the communists are ready to return shot for shot with the Government; he emphasized the fact that the communists by no means suffered the heaviest casualties in the clash with the police.
An example of the boldness of the Communists during the past month may be cited in the case of one Angelini, an anti communist engineer of the San José Municipality, who shouted to a friend riding in an automobile, asking What about our friend Braña. Braña was expelled from the country several days previously for his Communist activities. When Angelini later passed the auto, which had stopped, the chauffeur, a Nicaraguan, struck him over the head with an automobile crank, saying: Be careful what you say about Braña and other communists.
The local press has announced that on June 17th next there will appear a new publication entitled CARETAS. edited by Carmen Lyra (Isabel Carvajal. the Communist leader recently dismissed from her position