ABSTRACT
The attitude of the Communist Party of Germany, the largest unit of the international outside Russia and in the center of Europe, was vital to all the Russian antagonists. For Stalin, the prime aim of Communist trade-union policy was their infiltration by means of cells, the prime instrument of union manipulation and, moreover, of valuable industrial espionage. Before the forthcoming convention of the German party met, Manuilsky gained one small victory for Stalin—the expulsion of the most ardent supporters of independent trade-unions. In the German party, Neumann was becoming known outside Berlin as one of the young leaders of the Left caucus, a loyal and eager follower of Maslow. The German Central Committee should be enlarged, as the Russian one had been after Lenin’s death; in a larger body there would be more room for the Moscow Politburo to maneuver.
