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I'll ask em to let you have my job if you want it. They always say they
are goin to raise you but they never do. I been here a month and I
started on 30 cents a hour and I'm still gittin 30 cents a hour." I went
inside the office and a man said, 'Say Buddy, is your name Smith?'

"I told him sure, and he told me 'You go on in the other office and
I'll make arrangements for the doctor to examine you. Councilman Sweet
called up about you.'

"I went on in the other office. Never did see the feller what
wanted to give me his job anymore--seems like some people don't know when
to be satisfied. I was afraid the doctor was not a-goin to pass me, my
eyes is so bad. But I told him I could do anything so long as the work is
not too close. He passed me and I got a ratin too--the ratin gives me
35 cents instead of 30 cents a hour. I'm goin to run the elevator. I
guess Sweet callin em up got me the job and ratin all right.

"I'm mighty glad to git this job. I sure don't want to go back to
croppin berries. That's what I'd a had to do ifen I hadn't got this job--
unless I got on the WPA. I never yet got nothin from the WPA and I hope
it won't never be so as I have to. You can't never tell when them WPA
jobs is goin to give out, neither.

"I'm a good farmer and do right well with the land I crop, but it's
mighty hard to make even a livin to git along on when you're workin for the
other feller. He just won't give you enough to live on and you have to do
all the work, too, and then not have enough to get along on. It's mighty
hard on a feller with a family to look out for. If it was just a man and
his wife it would be different, but with kids it's pretty bad and the old-
er kids gits the harder they are on you.

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