David Dubinsky

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David Dubinsky was a renowned labour leader and also helped in starting the ‘American Labor Party’

Feb 22, 1892

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Personal Details

  • 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

David Dubinsky born at

Brest

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Birth Place

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.

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Personal Life

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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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.

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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)’.

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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.

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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.

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