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Dubinsky may have the most interesting background of any union leader from the period. He was born David Dobnievski in Brest Litovsk, Russian Poland, on 22 February 1892. His family moved to Lodz, Poland, the industrial center of the country, where his father owned a small bakery. Dubinsky went to work in his family's bakery at age eleven, and by fifteen he had advanced to master baker. He joined a local bakers' union and became deeply involved in unionism and underground rebellion. Dubinsky quickly became a leader of the union and led a strike against the city's Jewish bakeries, including his father's. He was arrested as a labor agitator and sent to jail. His father bribed the jailer to get his fifteen-year-old released, and Dubinsky spent the next three months hiding in Brest Litovsk. In 1908 a spy betrayed the young man, and he was arrested as a second offender...
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