CONDITION OF THE AUSTRIAN PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600020003-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The circulation of the Communist newspaper, b.1,, has has dwindled to 6,000, while the Sunday edition re-
ceives a circulation of 7,000 copies This circulation is
being maintained only with difficulty -The central party
bureau has refused to continue the payment subsidies and
is demanding that the Communist Party newspapers in the
province. be self-supporting. Many business men, shopkeep-
ers and industrialists in the Province of Salzburg subscribe
to the, zaablatt only because of fear of the Communists and
regard their advertisements in this paper as a hind of in-
surance device. The situation would become more critical for
the Taal...11A if these.circles.were not to submit to Commu-
nist threats and blackmailing. However, even now, the fi-
nancial situation of the paper is so critical that the party
executive board in Vienna is cOnsidering a resolution., to
stop its publication. In anattempt to conceal the true
circumstances such a measure would be characterized as a
"concentration of forces" which requires the merger of the
Taal= with the Egsie Zeit, the Communist daily in Linz.
, The Salzburg Socialist newspaper Pe
has a-circulation of 3,500 to 10,000 which is about the same
as that of the Z;. Zi.?.1.the press
organ of the Vereinigung der Unabhaengigen Association of
the Independents) (VdU) of the Province Salzburg. The Socialist
newspaper has a monthly deficit of approximately 40,000 shil-
lings which must be covered by the party. This paper also
exerts pressure upon business .circles in order to obtain
subscriptions and advertisements Moreover, the enterprises
run by the party such as the "Union" FoOdstuffs Factory of
the Socialist cooperative 'organization contribute thousands
of shillings every month in the form of advertisements. The
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Central Executive Board of the Socialist Party in Vienna
is attempting to buy the 2),==aKiselgzaalsghlatt through
its Vienna Paily Publishing Firm in order to bring it under
its control. At present the paper is the property of the
Salzburg provincial party board end is exclusively under
its control.
3. TheLingpx_Lelksbla t, the daily newspaper of the Austrian
People's Party OeVP) has been influenced greatly in the
past by the orkers'and Employees ' Association through
its former _editor in chief Gustav Putz,Putz is a respect-
able honest and progressive journalist with a regard for
democratic principles. These traits are reflected in the
character of the newspaper which has a circulation of
35,000. However the react5.on4Y elements protested against
Herr Putz's line and -succeeded in getting him replaced by
an exponent of the Farmers' League.
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