David Dubinsky
David Dubinsky was a US trade unionist who led the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
Dubinsky was appointed treasurer of the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) at its foundation on 25 February 1934. The JLC president, B.C. Vladeck gave a stirring anti-Nazi speech at the 1934 convention of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which created a Labor Chest to aid the victims of fascism.[1]
According to Roy Godson, Dubinsky was instrumental in winning the AFL's support for the JLC:
- Before America became involved in World War II, David Dubinsky and Matthew Woll had feared that if the democratic leadership of Eastern and Western Europe were destroyed by the Nazis, the Russians and the well-organized Communist underground might emerge from the ensuing political vacuum as the new rulers of the continent. With this in mind, Woll and Dubinsky enlisted the support of the AFL's president William Green and its secretary-treasurer George Meany in the Jewish Labor Committee's effort to rescue hundreds of democratic labor leaders, politicians, and intellectuals from the Nazis.[2]
Affiliations
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
- American Committee for a United Europe
- Committee on the Present Danger (1950 version)
Connections
Notes
- ↑ Guide to the Records of the Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.), Part I, Holocaust Era Files WAG 025.1, The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Digital Library, accessed 30 April 2010.
- ↑ Godson, Roy(1975) 'The AFL foreign policy making process from the end of World War II to the merger', Labor History, 16: 3, 326 — 327.
