REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inhaz. ML1 0:2 2498 18 need up on the whole business and is anxious to hot back to normaley. The Communist leaders of the strike, however, are not at all satisfied, and they have made it very olear that if potty riding and petty terrorim wu serve their purpose, they intend to keep the country in a tummoll. The situation which di obeervers balleve 18 developing my bo 11kmed to guerrilla wastare between organized bands of raidorm living on the country and the Government forces.
Banana growers throughout the Limón uren ar.
today preparing to out frutt in antiadipation of the loading of work and stommers on Saturday and Sunday, but the outting is proceeding in an atmosphere of fear and trembling, with native workers furtively watching for what they donoribe as the tirants.
Prom the inception of the strike the docile West Indian and Jamnioun negrou, who furnish the chiet source of labor in the banana region, have been opposed to the strike, but those people have doua cowed by stronger minded ite Costa Ricans and in many instances Nicaragumns, who actually Imagine rated a reign of terror. Coverment officials and other investigators found mok proot of the sotuak fear by laborers that thruats were bading in farm cabins and behind trees and otherwise were nearby to molest, poustibly mil, those who sought No work.
In my Despatch No. 414 of Angaut 31, 1934, informed