CA BI T-2258
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Item
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ca. 1985
Item is an audio reel that features a sound recording of a CBC Radio program entitled "The Future of Sydney Steel."
Track listing is as follows:
- The History of the Sydney Steel Plant, DOSCO threatening to close it on Black Friday 1967
- History from 1901 to present
- The working of the plant; Various furnaces
- The importance of the Plant during World War II investments poured into the plant
- Hard times before the Union came
- Establishment of Local 1064
- 1967 march in Sydney to keep the Steel Plant alive
- Problems during the 1980s with SYSCO; Many of the mills closed and moved to Upper Canada