MORE LAND
NATIONALIZSD IN CUBA
On October 4 Cuba's revolutionary government lowered the ceiling on the amount of land which may be held privately from 970 acres to 193 acres. Some 7,500,000 acres were affected.
Experience proved that the former ceiling was too high. The bigger landowners, said the decree, have been. working "against the best interest of the working people, obstructing food production, speculating with products or using high income obtained from exploitation of workers for antisocial and counterrevolutionary purposes."
Exceptions to the nationalization decree were provided for farmers who have "shown a complete desire to co-operate -with the government" in planning production. -