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    PsgG 24 PITTSBURGH - ITEM 13 PITTSBURGH: LS TO ESTABLISH LOCATION OP HARWICH MINE, HARWICH, PA * DISSOLVE TO: ENTRANCE OF CAGE. JERRY BYRNES ENTERS FRAME AND WAITS FOR CAGE. CAGE COMES TO SURFACE. CU OF BYRNES' FACE. ... but under the land to the north, near Pittsburgh, a man will work to a different tune. Here's an entrance to a shaft that meets a road through a mine ... not just a road of stone or concrete or even coal. But a road that's a sage of men's lives, their Joy in hav- ing work} their sorrow when the mine was shut down, their tragedy in disaster, their love and hate of the road through the dusky diamonds* This is Jerry Byrnes, miner, who's traveled this road for more than half a century. Fireboss for 21 years who's go- ing down to do his job now. BYRNES: What's a fireboss? Sort of an ex- ecutive without an executive's job. I'm on my feet all the time. I roam through the mine alone with my lantern testing for mine gases, Only an old man would want a job