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If any corporation, company, firm or person shall coerce or compel, or attempt to coerce or compel, an employee in its, their, or his employment, to purchase goods or supplies in payment of wages due him, or to become due him, or otherwise, from any corporation, company, firm or person, such first-named corporation, company, firm or person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. History —Mar. 12, 1908, p. 171, § 2.