Steuben, John (1906–1957)

Ukrainian-born US union organizer, radical activist, and labour editor who emigrated to the USA with his father in 1923. He was an organizer for the communist-run Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union in the 1930s and played a major role in the steel strike of 1936–37. After serving in World War II, he edited March of Labor (1950–54) and published Strike Strategy (1950).

He was born in Brailov, Ukraine. Little is known of his life until he became active in the US labour movement in the 1930s. In later years he suffered FBI harassment despite repudiating the Soviet state.