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The delegates at Truro, representing 13,000 miners, wanted face workers like Tossy to make as much in five shifts as they now make in seven. This might be possible, if production goes up fast enough. Although District 26 has agreed to mechanization, it still wants assurance that there will be jobs for the men laid off—preferably new jobs created by the development of new industries, especially steel products, in the Sydney area.
* The principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced.