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Henry a Wallace — Part 1
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Memo for the file
aa In Costa Rien, ' ir. WALLACE, all the business enterprises of the...
- gountry have bean compelled by law to raise the salaries ef the laborers =:
ey und yet the Beited Fruit. Company and. $he Klevtrio. bent & x3
ot have. ven siete fun. of the x Wa eee
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tec vet diving € The United Fruit. Nhaked thé, Someanists oes
£% ‘and the. nab tset of ae nope BPs ous @UARDIA, whoa everybody res
‘and loves beeause ef his sympathy of the poor, went. to the Beiiana Zone 7 ;
viewed the leaders in order to settle the matters “He begged then to: Stop ¢ the
movement and prapised then to aypee to the Company so that the leaders. would
take into poneideretion the a f the Laborers & 2 xh.
whe ly J eupany ‘dieuissed. all the leaders ant ‘denanded a
ey leave the Zone ismédiatelye They were then plased en a black list t
ond the simple minded ones’ ef the group were terrorized ‘and intinidated, © =~:
_Mowevery the President ef. athe sountry @44 ebteiu trai the Manager of the Conpry
af, Prouise to better, the living conditions of the, jaborerd but size has past
| the 9 rcaiie hes neh Yet Doce Soutties ee ee
= Pel aohe. “ef great ‘integrity, who ‘sizcer sly wishes :
~ “for a better snderstanding | between Costa Rica and ths U. 8. de, we are bringing ©
; these facts to your attention in the hope that you will use your influence in
behalf of these . People whose only Rope of pelvation is through the democratic
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