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The membership of the ILGWU fell from 105,000 in 1920 to 40,000 in 1933. The organization was heavily in debt, and its internal paper, Justice, ceased publication. When Dubinsky took over in 1932 he used the initiative of the New Deal to take the offensive in reviving the union. He called for a strike against the nonunion Philadelphia dress industry in May 1933 and was successful, raising the spirits of the entire organization. After the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which he helped formalize as a labor adviser to the National Recovery Administration (NRA), Dubinsky called for volunteers to help reorganize the ILGWU. He received a huge response, and hundreds of thousands of circulars were printed; even Justice resumed publication. Dubinsky opened organizational drives simultaneously in sixty cities.
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