Up for auction “American Labor Party” David Dubinsky Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1977ES-8630EDavidDubinsky (Yiddish: דאוויד דובינסקי; born David Isaac Dobnievski; February 22, 1892 –September 17, 1982) was a Belarusian-born American labor leader and politician. He served aspresident of the InternationalLadies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) between 1932 and 1966,took part in the creation of the CIO,and was one of the founders of the American Labor Party andthe Liberal Party of New York.David Isaac Dobnievski was born February 22, 1892 in Brest, in what was then the Russian Empire (and is now Belarus), as the youngest of five boys and three girls.[1] Dubinsky and his family moved to Łódź, Poland, shortly before he turned three.David's father, Bezalel Dobnievski, a religious Jew, owned a bakery, butlimited himself to administrative tasks related to the enterprise. David'smother Shaina Wyshengrad died when he was eight, with his father remarrying ayear and a half later. David worked from early childhood delivering bread fromhis father's bakery to local shops, while attending a Hebrew school, where hestudied Polish, Russian, and Yiddish. He was later forced to leave a semi-private school heattended to take work in his father's bakery to replace a brother who had leftabruptly.Powered by ExportYourStore