Where do the dissident bureaucrats stand?
. Confirmation of the huge damage done to the struggles by the union leaderships has come not only from militant workers or revolutionary activists. Even the mild reformist local union bureaucrats note this. In the wake of the naked betrayal of the top bureaucrats, certain local union officials have hurled bitter accusations at the national sellouts. For instance, some Staley UPIU Local 7837 officials have condemned the flimsy support given their strike by the UPIU national bigwigs. There is justice in their charges. But during the strike, these same officials kept the struggle within bounds acceptable to the top union hacks and kept their complaints to a minimum. These officials now rightly point out how the top union officials sabotaged a possible victory. But even today the dissident officials’ main complaint was that the top leaders were not enthusiastic enough about implementing weak “corporate campaign” tactics that scarcely differ from the policy of the top officials. The so-cal
