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Description
Mr. Senycz speaks about the tough times for families during the Depression and how
salary dollars were limited.
Transcription
If you had a family they only give you five dollars a month per person for relief and you couldn’t buy the sweet stuff like sugar or jams and that. You had to buy potatoes and cabbages because they didn’t want you to... but the storekeeper always slipped something in there for you because he wanted your business. But five dollars a month, that’s all you got. And you had to work it off. My parents had to work it off. My brother and I, we used to work on the road with pick and shovel and fixing things to work that thirty dollars off or you couldn’t get it the next time. Today that’s taboo, they figure that’s disgraceful.