Word: landlessness
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...dusk, throughout the Roman countryside, loudspeakers suddenly blared an incitement to landless farm workers: "Landless poor, collectively occupy the land of those who have too much. ..." The signal for the expropriation: church bells tolling at dawn. The inciting voices were Communists and left-wing socialists. But the motive force for expropriation was months of disappointment at the Republic's failure to satisfy the land hunger of the rural proletariat...
...unfilled dugouts of the civil war house the jobless, the ragged, the hungry, the impoverished. On the great estates landless peasants toil for four pesetas (36?) a day. The black market thrives and bureaucrats and party men take fat cuts...
Land Reform. The farms taken from Germans, Hungarians and collaborationists are being redistributed among landless Czechs and Slovaks. The last big estates (not many, since prewar Czechoslovakia carried out an extensive land reform) are vanishing. Agriculture is being rationalized-but not through the Soviet system of collectivization. The kolkhoz (collective farms), Communists agree, would be anathema to Czechoslovakia's peasant landowners. Instead, the Government is promoting farmers' cooperatives on a scale surpassing that of prewar days, when they counted 2,000,000 members...
Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
...Proposed the legalization of trade unions and "defense of the masses from arbitrary, excessive exploitation." ¶Proposed confiscation of the big estates of Nazis, Junkers and "imperialists" and their division among the "landless peasants...