A year ago Buffalo could have matched its manpower troubles with any city's. It had an overall labor shortage, which was worsened by widespread labor pirating, sucking workers from the heavy work and low pay of the steel mills, shipyards, etc., into the pleasanter surroundings and high wages of the aircraft plants. As a result, war production in Buffalo's heavy industries was hamstrung, while overstaffed aircraft plants frequently marked time for lack of parts from understaffed subcontractors. To ease the crisis, Buffalo fumbled with numerous catch-as-catch-can makeshifts. Example: to induce more women to take...
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