biography
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| (1898–1985)
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| biography:
| Labour leader, born in Bessarabia, Russia. Emigrating to the USA in 1910, he worked in the fur industry and joined the radical movement. A Communist, he led a 1926 strike of New York fur workers. He later led the fur workers into the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and was elected president of the International Fur and Leather Workers (1939). The union was expelled from the CIO (1950) because of its pro-Communist stance, which he supported. |
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