REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Statele fer lahz ey ML, NARA 0312 2493 DEPARTME 265. 36. 2 ReportR 934 DP COSTA RICA UPO. BREZA 03. 2010 SE DEW Subject: Radicalis.
The results of the last general election in Costa Rica have been most ancouraging to the Communiste. So.
Report 514, Feb. 16th) Sinoe this election they have started orgenizing labor in a most systematic manner. They have started Unions or Syndicates in the less important trados at first. Here they evidently expect to receive less opposition from the governmont end from the wealthy and powerful coffee planters. They seen tion of organizing the most merous labor group in the country (tho coffas laborors) until they have become firmly ontrenched in other fields. They know that when they start organis.
ing this class, they can expect a big fight from the people who run the government. This fight they evidently want to postpone until they have a strong and smooth running organization. But when they do start on this element of the population (which they surely have every intention of doing) it will no en el888 warfare and much trouble, misery and bitterness for all concerned.
818. 00B 61 The following artiole, appearing in La Tribuna of March 11th, describes the present aotivities of the Comunist Party: COLUNIST PARTY INITIATES VAST PROGRAM OF PROPAGANDA THROUGHOUT THE OUNTRY, RGANIZING CONFEDERATION OF SYUD ICATES.
The aleations passed, the cormunist party has comenced the carrying out of a vast plan of action, arbr aoing the antire country.
The organization of the Confederation of Syndicates of Laborers in Costa Rica will be attempted. Comunists doom this entity indispansable for the political information of each one of the sections of the Rod Internationelo.
According to reports from the promoters, work has been initiated with favor able results. Already severel of the most important ayndi.
catos, suoh as those of shoemakers, woodworkers, tailors, magons and bakers are formed and organised. total of some thousands are thus affiliated.
The one of shoemakers was the first one to enter into notivity.
having organised the strike of this trade, first in San José and Care tago and afterwards in the othor provinces and triumphing in their petitions of inors ase in pay on a sliding scale.
The other syndiostas, we said in the begiming, are being are genised, each one first appointing provisional committoes and stor wards permanent ones. The bakers have already initiated a movement of new rates of salaries and we will further report on the subject during the course of the week. m4 route From: Costa Rica Report No. 2, 380 Date: March 13, 1984.