 Las Casas feared that at the rate the exploitation was proceeding it would be too late to hinder their annihilation unless action were taken rapidly.The second was a change in the labor policy so that instead of a colonist owning the labor of specific Indians, he would have a right to man-hours, to be carried out by no specific persons.This required the establishment of self-governing Indian communities on the land of colonists – who would themselves organize to provide the labor for their patron.