REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 198710 Tights 911 in ORY GEWISS 7930 The Communist leader, Manuel Mora, made an address which was couched in excellent Spanish and very well delivered, as always. He spoke of the miserable condition of the laborer and the peon in Costa Rica, and the work which his party, aided by President Calderón Guardia, had done to alleviate it. He made a number of bitter references to the foreign imperialistic companies which he said were responsible for the down trodden condition of the Costa Rican laborer. In the course of his address, Mora tended to stamp as Nazi Fascist all persons or organizations opposing the Coramunist Party labor program. He made a direct attack on Señor Cortés and the Diario de Costa Rica, referring to the article by Señor Cortés published in the Diario de Costa Rica that morning declaring that the President had made a serious mistake in granting permission to hold this demonstration at a time of domestic intranquillity caused by politics. Mora said that this was ridiculous, and that the events themselves had shown that it was not the President, but Mr. Cortés, who was mistaken. He continued that Cortés had first advised his partisans to take part in the parade, but on that morning had criticised it because he considered it danger continued that, the one thing certain among so many contradictions is that the support of the Cortesistas for the demonstration of today was only verbal. There is abundant proof that the Cortesista employers did everything possible to sabotage it, without succeeding.
This is not a Cortesista manifestation. Is it a Cortesista manifestation. Loud cries. No! No. He said that he had often been asked what path the Communist Party proposed to follow in the future (apparently meaning which Presidential candidate would it support. He declared that the policy of the Communist Party was to work for liberty and democracy, first, last, and all the time. So far as the forthcoming elections were concerned, the Communist Party would favor whatever candidate or group which would work with them. He said that the Communist Party in Costa Rica was willing to make reasonable concessions from its fundamental principles in order to obtain all practicable and immediate improvement in the lot of the worker. He also stated that the Communist Party was with President Calderón Guardia so long as the President desired to continue his work of social improvement.
The President did not have an opportunity to speak until long after darkness had set in and a considerable part of the crowd had left the park. He was suffering from a cold and throat trouble, which was obvious from his voice, which was forced and considerably higher than usual. His speech did not contain any surprises, merely reaffirming his interest in the laboring man, which he said was due to his knowledge of the mi conditions in which the workers live, which he had seen at firsthand during his medical practice. He recounted, with pride, the various laws of a social character which he had sponsored and defended the proposed Labor Code which will come up before Congress this week. He also declared that