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1940 demands
- Division of the State's large properties (latifundios) as well as private ones, and giving these along with water to those who work the land;
- Abolish the practice of forced and free labor;
- Absolute prohibition of entradas, cargos, priostazgos, capitanias, and guiones;
- Abolition of diezmos and primicias, according to the law;
- Abolition of concertaje;
- Reduce the work day to eight hours, in accordance of the law;
- Strict compliance with minimum wage laws;
- Foundation of an Agricultural Bank for the peasants;
- Creation of an Agricultural Institute;
- Depreciation of farm tools;
- No charges for all religious services;
- Complete freedom of organization;
- Abolition of gobernadores, regidores, and alcaldes;
- Abolition of corporal punishment;
- Absolute suppression of the services which brides lend priests in the weeks proceeding a wedding;
- Abolition of the doctrina and confesión which priests and alcaldes impose;
- More day schools for children, organized with an eye toward their complete spiritual and economic liberation;
- Foundation of Sunday and night schools for adults of both sexes, organized with the same goals as those for children;
- Suppression of domestic services lent to whites and mestizos.
Source: "¿Es de 'raza inferior' el 'indio'?" Ñucanchic Allpa, Epoca II, No. 15 (May 28, 1940), 1, 4.
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