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Any officer, employee or agent of a corporation, firm or other person, invested with power and authority to dismiss laborers or to employ them, who by coercion in any manner attempts to dismiss any such laborer or to reduce his compensation as such laborer, in order to induce him to vote at any legal election according to the desires of the corporation, or of the officer or agent representing it, or who in any manner attempts to examine the ballot of such laborer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.