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Line 32: − + + − Those who, in their poverty and helplessness, refused to surrender their independence, paid for it. A man in Plymouth, Pa., was given a whitecollar relief job before election at $60.50 a month. He was told to change his registration from Republican to Democratic. He refused and very soon found himself transferred transferred from his whitecollar job to a pickaxe job on a rock pile in a quarry. There he discovered others on the rock pile who had refused to change their registration. This was in America, the America of the men who were chanting and crooning about liberty and freedom 365 days a year, who were talking about democracy and freedom for all men everywhere. +
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===Pennsylvania===
===Pennsylvania===
In Pennsylvania workcards were issued by the Party entitling the recipients to employment on the state highways and these were distributed by political groups. Some of these cards entitled the holders to employment "for two to four weeks around election time." In one county, from September, 1935 to September, 1938, the WPA spent more than $27,000,000 on highways. What chance had any man or any party against this? Al Smith had said you can't beat a billion dollars.
In Pennsylvania <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756769-2,00.html Records on Relief], [[Time magazine]], Oct. 19, 1936,</ref>
workcards were issued by the Party entitling the recipients to employment on the state highways and these were distributed by political groups. Some of these cards entitled the holders to employment "for two to four weeks around election time." In one county, from September, 1935 to September, 1938, the WPA spent more than $27,000,000 on highways.
A man in Plymouth, Pa., was given a whitecollar relief job before election at $60.50 a month. He was told to change his registration from Republican to Democratic. He refused and very soon found himself transferred from a whitecollar job to a pickaxe job on a rock pile in a quarry. There he discovered others on the rock pile who had refused to change their registration.
===Tennessee===
===Tennessee===