A leading member of the National Steel Car Rank-and-File Committee explained why workers’ took the decision to establish the NSC-RFC in opposition to the United Steelworkers bureaucracy.

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“during that greatest period of union expansion during the 1930s it was socialist-minded workers that were the driving force behind that mass movement of the working class. It is also worth noting that after World War II, the trade union bureaucrats made sure to purge any of these socialist elements out of the trade union movement.”