David Dubinsky

@Political Leaders, Timeline and Facts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ David Dubinsky was a renowned labour leader and also helped in starting the ‘American Labor Party’ Socialists American Leaders Political Leaders Pisces Celebrities David Dubinsky was one of the most prominent leaders of the United States. From being a baker he rose to the ranks of one of the most significant leaders of the Labor Party. His journey started as a leader, after he joined the ‘Baker’s Union’. His leadership qualities got noticed and he was then elected as a board of member of the ‘Local 10’ association of the ‘ILGWU’. From that time onwards he has held many posts in the ‘ILGWU’, operated in difficult situations and emerged successful in his undertakings. He has led the ‘International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union’ through upheavals and over the years proved his management skills by lifting the union from a deteriorated condition to one of the most influential associations of the United States. This leader understood the plight of the labourers and formulated reformative and innovative schemes to provide better working environment and benefits. These significant moves by the political leader in turn increased productivity. He was also politically active and his association with the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped him in reviving the desolate and debt stricken condition of the Union and overcome the aftermaths of the ‘Great Depression’

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Birthday: February 22, 1892 Died on: September 17, 1982 Nationality: American Famous: Political Leaders, Socialists, Leaders, Political Leaders Ideologies: Socialists Humanitarian Works: He was member of the ‘Labor League for Human Rights’. Birth Place: Brest Information Detail Birthday February 22, 1892 Died on September 17, 1982 Nationality American Famous Political Leaders, Socialists, Leaders, Political Leaders Ideologies Socialists Humanitarian Works He was member of the ‘Labor League for Human Rights’. Birth Place Brest Gender Male Sun Sign Pisces Born in Brest Famous as Political leader Died at Age 90

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He married Emma Goldberg in the year 1914, and after that he refrained from engagements with the ‘Socialist Party’ and the cooperative movements. The leader rather preferred to focus on his craftsmanship and local union issues. Unsplash Personal Life

Max D. Danish wrote a biography about David Dubinsky in the year 1957 and named it ‘The World of David Dubinsky’. Unsplash Personal Life

Another book based on the life of this prominent leader is ‘Tailor’s Progress: the Story of a Famous Union and the Men who Made It’, written by Benjamin Stolberg. Unsplash Personal Life

David Dubinsky was born to Bezalel Dobnievski and Shaina Wyshengrad on 22nd February 1892 in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (present day Brest, Belarus). The boy had five other siblings and he was the youngest of them all. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life:

His family moved to Lodz, Poland where his father established a bakery. At a tender age, he started helping his father with works at the bakery and also distributed bread to various shops. At the same time, he studied at a Hebrew school and learnt languages such as Russian, Polish and Yiddish. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life:

When he was a teenager, he became skilled at baking and even joined the ‘Bakers’ Union’ which was associated to ‘The Bund’, an activist union of Jewish labourers. Unsplash Career:

In 1907, he was taken into custody for a brief period by the Czarists for his association with the political outfit ‘Bund’, following the ‘Russian Revolution of 1905’. Unsplash Career:

After his release, he joined the union again and was instrumental in organizing a strike of the bakers in Lodz. This resulted in his arrest for a second time, after which he was sent to Brest-LItovsk. Dubinsky unlawfully travelled back to Lodz and resumed his association with the union. Unsplash Career:

In 1908, he was again arrested and even asked to go to Siberia. David shrewdly escaped from this exile, returned to Lodz and continued his baking work by adopting a pseudo name. Unsplash Career:

He moved to the City of New York in the year 1911, where he started working as a garment cutter, and also joined the ‘Local 10’ association of the ‘International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)’. Unsplash Career:

During his presidency of the ‘International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), Dubinsky brought a radical change in the union by increasing its number of workers from around 45,000 to about 450,000. He initiated many new schemes like the pension plans, housing and health centres in the union. Unsplash Major Works:

He was instrumental in the amalgamation of the ‘American Federation of Labor’ (AFL) and the ‘Committee on Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) organizations in the year 1955. Unsplash Major Works:

Information	Detail
Birthday	February 22, 1892
Died on	September 17, 1982
Nationality	American
Famous	Political Leaders, Socialists, Leaders, Political Leaders
Ideologies	Socialists
Humanitarian Works	He was member of the ‘Labor League for Human Rights’.
Birth Place	Brest
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Pisces
Born in	Brest
Famous as	Political leader
Died at Age	90

David Dubinsky

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Feb 22, 1892

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