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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 124, GREENBACK - LABOR: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | Greenback state tickets were nominated in most of the northern states, though they had little popular strength outside of the western statesIII. |
 | | In some state elections, as in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the "labor reform" and "greenback" parties united, and the union was made national by the convention of Feb. 22, 1878, at Toledo, Ohio. |
 | | The platform renewed the former greenback platform, and added various resolutions in favor of the eight-hour law and the sanitary regulation of manufactories, and against Chinese immigration, land grants to railroads, and grants of special privileges to corporations and bondholders. |
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