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ae TABSKSÉN 1895 Tessa ES ha xk present. 28.350 active As i eer. of which 435 are admittedly full-time employess, These full hundred at present, The salaries of these 435 persons is in excess of 8 million Schillings per annum - and this is paid by a party = which receives in membership dues less than 2,500,000 a year, Best Westem. Intelligence men are esti ating, that the present rate of affairs, that the mdget this year would be are maintained at an average of one Schilling a month, . With these funds the enormous press apparatus is also kept up, which at present includes 9 daily papers, 12 weekly papers a and 70 fortnightly or monthly papers, All these papers together La of whom do so under duress because they live in the Soviet Zone, Furthermore the Siviet authorities compell every Austrian office, bussiness or school in the Soviet Zone to subscribe to the German It must be noted, that some of the Soviet periodicals are many Socialist subscribers, as does the Trade Union "aper It mist be noted, that while this array of forces. is imthe administration, as well as in the Socialist Party, There are members of parliament, who are of the Nenni tendency and wait for the opportunity of a coalition with the Commnists¢ These forces. and since that time their pressure on the Socialist ee hag. steadily risen. Despite outward calm, a crisis in Austria is growing