The Spanish Civil War - pg. 264

Despite a near doubling in the cost of living, worker's
wages were reduced by decree to the level of 1935. All
strikes had been outlawed by the Nationalists in July 1936,
on penalty of execution by firing squad. In the fields a
labourer knew only too well that if he protested at his
conditions he risked being accused of sedition. All the agrarian
reforms made under the Republic were abolished. Even the
land purchased before the war was handed back to the
original owners. The Nationalists, however, claimed a land
reform of their own. This consisted mainly of expropriating
the property of Republican sympathizers to give to their
own soldiers or to reward peasants who had backed Nationalist
landowners.