David Lavine, for many years a labor leader of this city, was selected a member of the Seattle City Council today to fill the place made vacant by Councilman Robert Harlan, who has been named mayor as a result of the recall of Mayor Frank Edwards.
Mr. Lavine is president of the Seattle Central Labor Council, an office which he has held for many years, and is very popular in labor union circles in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. He is also vice-president of the International Jewelry Workers’ Union and secretary of the Jewelers’ local here.
“Dave” Lavine, as he is usually called here, came to this country at sixteen from Berditchev, Russia, where he was a yeshivah student. He is forty-seven years old.
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