CECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Inhz E: ML, NEC:t 24981 that should regulate its labor, 1t is clear that there is no cause for any 24 fusta.
Agreements usually spring from differences Om OS Sla cause. However, the company mat answer the all of the Government of the Republio innamoh as its polley has always been to rendor the country and its government all the assistance possibie, and wishes to do so on this and on any other occasion thout dotemeting In the fundamental principle described aboro.
Mr. Chittanden indists in his letter that the Companys relations with its laborers Whave been and are at present sufficiently friendly not to fastidy. discord. and it petootly a stain that a good understand ing date and will contime to do so in the future between the company and its laborers.
Following the exchange of letters, dr. Chittonda, so Mr. Gurdián saia, asked for and obtained permission from Mr. Santos León Herrera to publish the text of the letters. Mr. chittenden was anxious to place before the Costa Rican publie the attitude of the Company. This anxiety on his part had the effect, however, or further ouraging the Communists. It was a defiance which was not by another defiance. It upset the true entered into the previous work and 1t caused the banann strike to take on its most dangerous aspect. It precipitated a situation which caused consternation in Government direla, doubt as to the future, and a foar in some quarters that the rabia labor agitators would use it as the pretext of inflaming the imagination of thedr followers and thereby oause wide social, economie and political unrest at a time when the Government and the business Interests generally were giving thanies that the worst phase of the strike is over and Costa Rica night