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At the ILGWU convention in May 1934 Dubinsky announced that membership had reached two hundred thousand, making it the third largest union in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Eighty new locals had been chartered all across the nation and in Canada. Wages, hours, and conditions improved dramatically in all industries. Dubinsky profited from his hard work by being named a vice president of the AFL and a member of its executive council in 1935. Dubinsky, however, agreed with Lewis that the AFL needed to include nonskilled workers. Lewis called on him for help in founding the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO). Sensing that his union followed his lead in favoring industrial unionism, Dubinsky pledged five thousand dollars to help form the CIO, even though he was opposed to dual unionism.
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