European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In the Ruhr where steel and Coal production is lagging communists aim at control of labor unions organize protest strikes i Vizonia s reds toe the party line -. " ". " . A weekend report -.-.". The leaders of the communist party in the Western zones make no Bones about their primary objective smashing the Marshall plan in Germany v the Bosses of the Western zones i recently unified communist party kid Are Tough skillful and competent. They Are experts in the arts of organization agitation and demonstration. Almost to the Arian veterans of the,.communist underground Many of them with Post graduate degrees from som of Hitler s better known concentration Camps they Are not easily frightened by threats name calling or by the wrist mappings administered from time to time by military government. Their publicly announced Jong Range goal the unification of Germany into a communist Utopia tailored along the lines of the people s democracies to the East and Southeast requires certain Short term or limited objective  make no secret that the chief1 among flies at the moment is the wrecking of the european recovery program As it applies to Germany. To carry out these Short and Long term objectives the kid has established Headquarters for the unified Western zones party in a Large six Story Gray Stone building located at8 Gulleu Strasse in Frankfurt. There in a littered sparsely furnished office on he fifth floor sits Comrade Max Rei Mann who either is Kingpin of the Western communists or As some observers have suggested is the Type affront Ryan Best suited to what Marx ians Call the objective situation 1to-Day s party line. In either event Rei Mann whose gestures manner an attire suggest an actor who happens to be eating at the moment easily walks off with the title of Best dressed communist in the Western zones. He is also at Das the party s most effective Ora Tor and. Most charming con versa lion Alist and drives what is perhaps the fanciest automobile of any. Of Vizonia s indigenous politicians a convertible Maybach which usually numbers among its accessories several attractive Young female comrades. Until last fall when party line switch decreed otherwise Reimann was something of a social ,at official functions and is still some. Times referred to As a red Lucius beebe.". The Man behind this facade of harm and elegance is not however the products of cocktail lounges and Pri vate schools. He was born some 50 years ago in Elbing East Prussia a City which is nov part of a people s democracy Poland although Reimann has never come Forward to publicly announce his. Approval of his old Home town s . Reimann entered the mines at an Early age and later Migrate to the Ruhr where he became Active in a miners Union. He joined the party in1919, when he was 21, and held minor party Postr until he was forced to go underground along with a other communists when Hitler came to powering 1933. The Gestapo finally caught up with him in Prague in 1939 and he spent the War years in concentration  after he was liberated in 1945 he headed for Berlin when he held kid posts and after the merger with the social democrats had produced the socialist Unity party sed held offices in these soon Reimann was assigned to organizing in the Ruhr and Westphalia and by 1946 headed the kid in the British zone. During the Spring of the following year he paid a visit to eng land As a guest of the British communist party. He observed parliament in action and returned to report it Wasa quass Ezmund Tower of Babel a term frequently applied by the nazis to therein Stag of the Weimar Republic. Although the party has failed in two Large postwar undertakings a russian zone Type merger with the social democrats in the West and More recently their my snubbed attempt to change / their name to the socialist people s party Many German observers claim that Reimann has been slowly carrying out his primary objective the establishment of a parallel secret Skeleton organization ready Totake Over All party functions when As and if the Western Powers ban the Kudin their zones. Gathered around Reimann i Frankfurt Headquarters which also directs local party operations in Hesse Are waiter Fisch hessian chief who keeps a close Eye on Vizonia s eco nomic Council and Emil Carlebach Anable publicist who until suspended by military government for attacking the Western Powers was one of the editors of the Frankfurter Mundschau. Carle Bach who spent 11 years in concentration Camps recently keynote the new and More violently anti Western party line in a Frankfurt speech. These ruins he said pointing to the wreckage around him were not made by rus Sian bombers. Nor Are the dead buried under the ruins killed by. Russian  in the u. S. Zone the word is spread by other minor Bosses with slight variations Here and there to fit local conditions. In Bavaria the Mai Effort is being directed toward convincing the conservative bavarian that the party does not eat Little children. Here the membership resembles per haps most closely the makeup of the communist party in the United states artists writers and other intellectuals who might be lumped together As parlor  some Jie Adway is being made among the workers in the Indus trial towns of Niernberg Regensburg and Coburg but the organizers Haven been Able to make much headway in infiltrating and capturing the powerful bavarian federation of trades Union. One communist organizer admitted that the party considers Bavaria the least fruitful spot in All Europe for their  Fritz Sperling is the Boss who has the unenviable Job of organizing Bavaria. He was Active in the party in the Ruhr and managed to escape  and later Switzerland when Hitler came to Power. Perhaps the most colourful at least the most publicized. Communist in. Bavaria is Richards Herriger. Scheringer was arrested and imprisoned As a nazi before the nazis came to Power. Released he was later rearrested several times by the nazis who never could quite decide whether he was working for or against them. Now the head of the party s agricultural Section Scheringer a Farmer by profession is a constant Thorn in the Side of bavarian ministry of agriculture not a difficult Job since no one i Bavaria save perhaps the minister him self has Ever had much Good to layabout the ministry. In spite of All obstacles however the party is Register ing a slow and steady growth in a Varia. They polled about 7 per cent of the ballots in the legislative elections continued on Page 17 5 \