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The old tin mill

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To the Editor,

The old tin mill in 1953

Graduated high school

went directly into the tin mill at $12 a day.

Ten thousand employees

What went wrong?

Out on the old mill floor

Tin plate came

newspaper thin

running at 1,700 feet a minute

Became a supervisor's bad dream

Four tin lines running

Number five line's down

Number six line is up and down

Quality been bad

Boss Tony prayed, please Lord no more

Seventy years later

A state of the art tin line

is the only thing

that can save tin production

and a new mill in 2024.

Steve Kopa

Weirton

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