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Dubinsky used the help of the federal government to standardize working conditions nationally through the NRA code. The Roosevelt administration's prolabor stance helped the ILGWU organize and rebuild its membership. Dubinsky called for a general dress strike, and sixty thousand workers walked out in New York City. The employers soon folded under the pressure of union solidarity. After the impressive victory in New York, Dubinsky faced little resistance from other factory owners. Underwear workers struck for three weeks in September 1933 until their wages were increased. Corset and brassiere makers and neckwear and scarf workers also staged brief and successful strikes under Dubinsky's leadership.
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