CONETDENTIAL Enclosure No. to Desp. No. 172, American Embassy, San José, September 4, 1947.
From LA PRENSA LIBRE, Sept. 2, 1947.
Summary of an Editorial Entitled ANOTHER COMMUNIST ABSURDITY The Communist proposal is another one in the calculated chain of restrictions conceived and put into practice in conformity with a plan of obstructionism tending to create permanent difficulties which maintain relations between employer and employees in a state of tens eness.
Experience in conflicts between employer and employee has demonstrated that the country has accepted without any reluctance everything founded upon equity. In the labor courts the laborer secures easily and many times more than he believed himself entitled to. It has shown that notwithstanding the ever existing handicap against him, he wins his case whenever reason is in his favor. This being the case, one cannot explain the basis upon which an attempt is now being made to complicate the situation as it exists today.
Communist design is evident not in the intent to protect the worker against the abuses of his employer, from which he is more than protected by the Craconian provisions of the Labor Code and the inflexibility of the organizations and officials who intervene in his favor, but in the desire to create a state of tenseness which generates conflict for the purpose of disturbing normalcy in productiveness and in imony on which the general course of activities is based. It is an attempt to establish in favor of the worker a situation of immovability with a partisan criterion which permits abuse and disrespect and even insolence pending the holding of an investigation which probably would be prolonged to the detriment of the authority which the employer is forced to maintain at all times in his relations with his labor.
The concrete case of dismissal during the electoral period is not without the already established provisions of the Labor Code. The newly planned restrictions have no other purpose than that of restricting liberty in choosing the most capable laborers for a given task. capable worker, one who does not drink to excess, who properly performs his tasks, who respects the regulations of the shop where he works, who is polite to his superiors and to his fellow workers, never runs the risk of being dismissed either during electoral times or otherwise. His ability, his good manners, his civility and his other useful assets assure him his job. On the other hand, one who does not fulfill these conditions is ever running the risk of dismissal, not on account of arbitrariness of his employer, but on account of his unsatisfactory performance or conducto Communism is ever on the alert to use every individual for its sole benefit. The country at large should understand that the project is not intended to benefit the capable worker, but to increase his difficulties. In this unceasing struggle maintained for a deliberate purpose, the salaried person stands to gain nothing.
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