REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority State Leher Muhz ex m2 NARS Date 24 18 3) An increasing number of workers are beginning to realize the significance of the Labor Code and its importance to their welfare.
4) The Church could not sit back and let the Vanguardia Popular take all credit for the Labor Code, and could not allow the workers to feel that the Church was opposed to legislation designed for their welfare. Consequently, the Church had to give its full moral support to such legislation, and felt obligoà vo renove any impressions the workers might have had that the Church was opposed to the announced program of the Vanguardia Popular Party.
III. Regarding the Confederación Costarricense de Trabajadores Rerum Novarum and the Confederación de Trabajadores ae Costa Rica 1) Many employers and conservative newspapers at first loudly hailed the founding of the Rerun Novarum labor federation in the belief that it had been established for the purpose of combatting the but their approval and enthusiasm had cooiea considerably since observing that this was far from being the reason for the creation of Rerum Novarum.
2) The and the are not antagonists, each is necessary to the other. The needs the in order to dispel the belief that the Costa Rican labor movement is Communistic, and the needs the in order to eliminate any impression that organized labor in Costa Rica is dominated by the Catholic Church.
3) The Rerum Novarum has given up the idea of establishing a Central American Federation of Labor since the Catholic hierarchy in the other Central American countries are not receptive to the idea.
Daniel Valdes April 11, 1946 2