David Dubinsky

David Dubinsky was an American labor leader. He served as president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union between 1932 and 1966, took part in the creation of the CIO and was one of the founders of the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York.

David Isaac Dobnievski, known to history as David Dubinsky, was born February 22, 1892 in BrestLitovsk , the youngest of five boys and three girls. Dubinsky and his family moved to d, Poland, shortly before he turned three. Davids father Bezalel Dobnievski, a religious Jew, owned a bakery, but limited himself to administrative tasks related to the enterprise. Davids mother Shaina Wyshengrad died when he was eight, with his father remarrying a year and a half later. David worked from early childhood delivering bread from his fathers bakery to local shops, while attending a Hebrew school, where he studied Polish, Russian, and Yiddish. He was later forced to leave a semiprivate school he attended to take work in his fathers bakery to replace a brother who had left abruptly.

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