biography
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Dubinsky, David
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originally David Dobnievski
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| lived:
| (1892–1982)
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| biography:
| Labour leader, born in Brest-Litovsk, SW Belarus. Beginning his labour activism in Russia, for which he was exiled to Siberia, he escaped and emigrated to the USA in 1911. He joined the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in New York City as a cloak-cutter, and was elected its president (1932–66). Under his leadership the ILGWU became one of the most successful unions in America. An early supporter of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), he led the ILGWU back into the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1940. When the AFL and the CIO merged (1955) he became a member of the new executive council and then a vice-president of the AFL–CIO. He also took an active role in areas outside unions, helping to form the American Labor Party (1936), the Liberal Party (1944), and Americans for Democratic Action (1947). |
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