United Steelworkers of America

In the Grant Building here on June 17, 1936, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee was founded. Renamed in 1942, the USWA became one of the world's largest unions, embracing over a million workers. Philip Murray was its first president.

Marker is at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Grant Street, on the right when traveling east on Fourth Avenue.

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