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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Charles Mitchell describes Buffalo as a key industrial hub in Communist Party District Four, leading in chemicals, steel, aviation, rubber, autos, and marine transport, with surrounding towns focused on similar industries, emphasizing its role in war production and the Party's recruiting task amid unemployment.
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By CHARLES MITCHELL.
District Four of the Communist Party, with its headquarters in Buffalo, is one of the most industrial sections in the country. Buffalo which is the District City, ranks as the first in the production of chemicals "for all industries," according to statistics given by the Chamber of Commerce. Those who underestimate the importance of chemicals and their role in the coming imperialist war, underestimate the war danger itself.
Buffalo, with Wright-Curtiss airplane parts plant, employ already over 22,000 workers and they are building another plant to employ as many more. This despite the fact that in other industries mass unemployment exists.
Next to chemicals is steel. Buffalo, it can be said, is the second home of the steel magnates. Here are situated the Lackawanna Steel, the Bethlehem Steel, the Seneca Steel, the Donner-Eaton Steel, with a number of "small" plants scattered all over the vicinity. Besides the above there is the United States Rubber the Rayon Dupont, the Pierce-Arrow and America Brass, 15,000; American Radiolas, 20,000; Ford Auto Manufacturers with tens of thousands of workers, the most exploited in the country.
One of the other most important industries in Buffalo is marine transport. Of all the ports situated on the great lakes, Buffalo takes the first place both in volume and in position. The biggest grain store houses in the eastern part of the country are situated here which serve as concentration points for the entire eastern part of Canada. But Buffalo is becoming a metropolis in a certain sense. It is surrounded by purely one-industry towns.
Near Buffalo are towns like Lackawanna (steel), Tonawanda (steel, metal and chemical papermills—15,000), Lockport (brass and steel), Niagara Falls (chemical, steel), Depew (steel), Blasdell (steel), Lancaster (steel, railroad machine shops, radio parts, etc.): All of these being within the radius of 20 miles around Buffalo, it being the exact center of them all.
The task of the Party in the Recruiting Drive is to root itself in these heavy industries.
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Buffalo And Surrounding Towns (Lackawanna, Tonawanda, Lockport, Niagara Falls, Depew, Blasdell, Lancaster)
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Buffalo is portrayed as a central hub of war industries including chemicals, steel, aviation, rubber, autos, and marine transport, with massive employment in some sectors amid general unemployment; the Communist Party aims to recruit in these heavy industries.