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Palm Computing, Inc., was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, who sought out the help of Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, all of whom guided Palm to the invention of the Palm Pilot.
Nash was traded to the New York Rangers on July 23 for Brandon Dubinsky, Artem Anisimov, prospect Tim Erixon and a 2013 first-round draft pick.
Hal Draper ( born Harold Dubinsky, 1914 – January 26, 1990 ) was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement and is perhaps best known for his extensive scholarship on the history and meaning of the thought of Karl Marx.
Harold Dubinsky was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1914, the son of ethnic Jews who emigrated to America from Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire.
His father, Samuel Dubinsky, was the manager of a shirt factory who died in 1924.
The paper was also an early supporter of David Dubinsky, Schlesinger's eventual successor.
The American Labour leader David Dubinsky ( 1892 – 1982 ), though never formally a member of the party, had joined the bakers ' union, which was controlled by the Bund, and was elected assistant secretary within the union by 1906.
Despite enjoying some successes, the American Labor Party was tarred by the perceived influence of communists in its organization, which led David Dubinsky of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union, Alex Rose of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers, and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to leave in order to found the Liberal Party as an explicitly anti-communist alternative.
In 1987 his first novel, Travels with Dubinsky and Clive, was published by Viking.
David Dubinsky ( née David Isaac Dobnievski ) ( born February 22, 1892, Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire Brest, Belarus ; died September 17, 1982, New York, N. Y., U. S .) was an American labor leader.
David Isaac Dobnievski, known to history as David Dubinsky, was born February 22, 1892 in Brest-Litovsk ( currently Brest, Belarus ), the youngest of five boys and three girls.
Dubinsky was elected to the local's executive board in 1918, became vice-president of it the following year and president in 1921.
Shortly after Dubinsky was elected to the International Executive Board Benjamin Schlesinger, the International's President, resigned.
Dubinsky, by his own account, thought that Sigman was too rash and appears to have urged him to call a truce after the left wing-led unions led a campaign to reject a proposed agreement that Sigman had negotiated with the industry in 1925, bringing more than 30, 000 members to a rally at Yankee Stadium to call for a one-day stoppage on August 10, 1925.
When it called a general strike on July 1, 1926 Dubinsky was given a nominal role in the strike, reflecting his power base in the cutters ' union, but was largely sidelined.
The CPUSA opposed the new agreement but was by that time too weak to muster any effective resistance to Dubinsky.
Dubinsky was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the ILGWU at the end of 1929.
Rose Pesotta, a longtime ILGWU activist and organizer, complained to Dubinsky that she had the same uncomfortable feeling of being the token woman on the ILGWU's executive board that Dubinsky had complained about when he was the only Jew on the AFL's board.
Dubinsky was unwilling, on the other hand, to split the AFL into two competing federations and did not follow Lewis and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers when they formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations as a rival to, rather than a part of, the AFL.

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She left Kansas City around the age of 15 and toured the Midwest with the Dubinsky Brothers ' traveling theater show.
Nash, along with Steven Delisle and a conditional third round pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft were traded to the Rangers for Artem Anisimov, Brandon Dubinsky, Tim Erixon and a 2013 first round draft pick.
Jay Lovestone with David Dubinsky speaking at a union rally in the 1930s
Lovestone had maintained his relationship with Dubinsky throughout this period ; Dubinsky helped finance Martin's new union and worked for its affiliation with the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).
Dubinsky also helped Lovestone find work in 1941 with an organization favoring the United States ' entry into World War II.
In 1936, he co-founded the American Labor Party along with David Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman, as a vehicle to organize support for the re-election that year of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and mayor Fiorello La Guardia among Socialists in the union movement.
While Hillman's relationship with the Communist Party ultimately broke up in the conflict over whether to support Robert La Follette, Sr .' s candidacy for President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924, Hillman never faced the sort of volcanic upsurge that nearly tore apart the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union during this period and never undertook the wholesale purges that David Dubinsky and other leaders of the ILGWU used to stay in power.
Buchalter claimed, before his execution in 1944, that he had never had any deal with either Hillman or Dubinsky, head of the ILGWU.
Hillman and Dubinsky founded the American Labor Party in 1936, an ostensibly independent party that served as a halfway house for Socialists and other leftists who wanted to support FDR's reelection but were not prepared to join the Democratic Party, with its alliance with the most reactionary white elites in the South.
Dubinsky later split from the Labor Party over personal and political differences with Hillman to found the Liberal Party of New York.
Dubinsky set out to rebuild the ILGWU's base in New York City by striking a deal with the major manufacturers ' group in 1929 that provided no pay raises but made it possible for the union to police the contract by cracking down on subcontractors who " chiseled ", cheating workers out of pay or hours in order to gain a competitive advantage.
Dubinsky also had personality differences with Lewis, whom he resented as high-handed.
Dubinsky was opposed to any form of collaboration with communists and had offered financial support to Homer Martin, the controversial president of the United Auto Workers, who was being advised by Jay Lovestone, a former leader of the Communist Party turned anti-communist.
Lewis, by contrast, was unconcerned with the number of communists working for the CIO ; as he told Dubinsky, when asked about the communists on the staff of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, " Who gets the bird?
Dubinsky ultimately left the Labor Party in 1944 after a dispute with Hillman over whether labor leaders in New York, such as Mike Quill, who either were members of the Communist Party or were seen as sympathetic to it, should be given any role in the ALP.
In his last years, Dubinsky was often accessible to the union's members and was once observed in the 1970s chatting with a Pennsylvania garment worker and coalminer's daughter, one Florence Schiefer, at the ILGWU's Unity House, a resort for its members in the Pennsylvania Pocono mountains.
* Dubinsky, David with A. H. Raskin, David Dubinsky: A Life With Labor.

Dubinsky and Sigman's
Dubinsky supported Sigman's campaign.
Dubinsky denied any personal ambitions and rebuffed a proposal from Abraham Cahan of the Forward to promote him as Sigman's heir apparent.

Dubinsky and leadership
Now a member of Local 10 of the ILGWU, Dubinsky joined a group of members who rebelled against the old guard leadership of that union to argue for fairer distribution of job opportunities within the union.
As a result the Party, which had once held leadership positions within every major New York City local of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union other than the cutters local led by David Dubinsky, was wholly routed.

Dubinsky and by
While the CP retained a strong base of support in the smaller Fur Workers Union, it never recovered from its defeat in the much larger garment industry ; on the contrary, the ILGWU, led by David Dubinsky for the next forty years, remained resolutely anti-communist thereafter.
With the help of his brother's connections through the Bakery Workers Union, Dubinsky got a job as a cutter in a cloak shop, then a desirable job in an industry otherwise dominated by sweatshops.
At the 1928 convention of the ILGWU he first proposed that Sigman resign in favor of Schlesinger – a suggestion seen by many as part of a plan by Dubinsky to become the eventual head of the union.
In addition, Dubinsky was alarmed by the presence of Communist Party members on the payroll of the CIO and the fledgling unions it had sponsored.
At the time Dubinsky and Hillman were both nominal members of the Socialist Party, although Dubinsky had, by his own admission, allowed his membership to lapse during the factional fighting of the 1920s.
Dubinsky had hopes of launching a national liberal party, headed by Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for President in 1940 who had soured on the Republican Party after his defeat in the primaries in 1944.
Dubinsky summarized his attitude by saying that " workers need capitalism the way a fish needs water.
While Dubinsky himself remained untouched by graft, a number of officers within the union were corrupted.
Because Roland was associated with left-wing causes, he was asked by ILGWU president David Dubinsky to withdraw.
Dubinsky was the CEO of the new company which produced its first product, the Handspring Visor, by September 1999.

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