REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Statele fer lahz By ML, NARA Oz: 24981 WA eni ployees of foreign companies be Costa Rican nationals.
In the third class, the Centro groups services and articles which are both produced and consumed in the country itself, such as electric power and cigarettes. These, if they possess a monopoly through contract, the Centro holds ghould be progressively nationalized through an amortization clause in the contract. Interprises which we started with foreign capital, but which are not monopolistic either in character or by contract, liowever, are to be encouraged, as they are supplying a need in the Costa Rican market, as well as affording a manner of gaining experience in the industry or craft, which will eventually be of value to the Costa Ricans themselves. Such is actually the case in the cigarette field, Wiere a company founded by native capital and operated by native labor is successfully competing with a company established by foreign capital and skill.
Fiscal reforius ua vocated by the Centro include the establishment of an effective graduated incolue tax, a thorough revision of tile systems or customs duties, and the establishment of an orderly budget system and an office similar to the General Accounting Office, while realizing the practical difficulties inherent in attempting to pass a bill calling for a generai tax on incomes, the Centro believes that the present Lethod of collecting most of the Government revenue is both economically unsound and disastrously organized. The budgetary and accounting systeris advocated are along the lines recently recommended to the Costa Rican Government by the two representatives of the United States Treasury Department who have been here on special assignments.
The Centro position toward labor and social legislation has been consistently favorable. It has stated that it favors not only the Seguro Social (social security) established by the present Administration, but also advocates its broudening to cover such broups as government employees, who at present are not included in its scope.
Toward the Garantías Sociales (sociul guarantees) which the administration of President Calderón Guardia had included in the Constitution, the Centro Cefined its position in Editorial Surco No. 2, of May, 1943, in an article by Rodrigo facio. Therein (page 13) it was stated that (translation. We support the social guarantees, recognizing the real worth whicli they have: the orderin, and completing of sociai laws gradually put in force in the last twenty years, the relative strengthening of the principles by their elevation to tae constitutional text, and the oportunity for the äirfusion of the new concepts of so:iul democracy ju our midst.
ja the same article. however, the Centru expressed the fear chat the social guarantees were destined to be in practice something