The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20

plOyeQ workers VINO were lureQ 10 a
farm with all sorts of glowing prom
iSes.
The farm, located at Capac, Mich,
was rented in the spring by a. group
of leaders of the Detroit local of the
Proletarian Party who were in con-
troll of the Unemployed Citizens
League, an organization which now
exists only on paper. They brought
in to help them a notorious indi-
vidual named Dennis E. Bait, who
was at one time a leader of the Pro-
letarian Party, but left the party
several years ago to run for office
on the Republican ticket and to Ne-
come labor" journalist in the best
capitalist style. BATH proved very
useful; through his political connec-
tions, he got a $4,000 seed loan from
the city council and the farm was
launched.
Ford Slave Driver Brought In
Unemployed workers, sent to the
farm to raise vegetables, were told
that this would be real workers
community, run by themselves, with
the profits shared among them. But
they soon discovered that their CON
ception of workers government
and that of the Proletarian Party
bureaucratS were not exactly alike.
The leaders brought in as superin-
tendent one Bill Lannek, who had
at one time been member of the
party. This individual formerly
worked as a superintendent at the
Ford Motor Co., where he had the
reputation of being one of the worst
slave-drivers in the plant and had
boosted of his ability ito put a man
in the hospital"
Lamnek quickly proceeded to vim
dicate his reputation and instituted
system of browbeating and espion-
age in the best Ford tradition.
A committee of former workers on
the farm has issued a statement ex-
posing the entire racket. Despite the
efforts of the Proletarian Party lead
ers to sidetrack it, the matter has
come up on the convention floor and
the statement is being distributed
among the party members. The COM
mittee of former farm workers is led
by Sam Garrett, who has just been
expelled from the Proletarian Party,
and w. Davenport, a non-party
worker. Garrett was expelled for
leading rank and file opposition
movement aaginst this racketeering
and against the opportunist, betrayal
policies of the party bureaucrats.
To save its face before the mem
bership the Keracher machine, which
has run the Proletarian Party ever
since its organization, has also sus-
pended Al Renner, the chief leader
of the party in Detroit. Renner, also
former Ford superintendent and
real estate shark, has been intinn-
ately connected with the "self help"
racket.
The revelations concerning this
racket mark another step in the de-
generation of the little group of
bench warming super Marxists" who
are the leaders of the Proletarian
Party and whose chief stock In trade
for years has been unprincipled at
tacks on the Communist Party.
For some weeks the report has
been current among the membership
that the present convention will be
the last and will mark the final
breakup of the Proletarian Party. A
section of the leadership is advocat-
ing accepting the overtures made to
them by the Lovestone group of rene
gades from Communism. BY join
ing with the Lovestoneites they hope
to establish new base for their
counter-revolutionary and racketeer-
ing activities and to continue to mis-
lead the small number of workers
that still follow them.