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| Founded | 2 December 1912 |
|---|---|
Ceased publication | 17 June 1927 |
Political alignment | Labor Party |
| Language | Norwegian |
| City | Levanger |
| Country | Norway |
Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat was a newspaper published in Levanger, Norway, between 2 December 1912 and 17 June 1927. It was politically aligned with and owned by the Labor Party, and was the sole Labor newspaper in Inntrøndelag. From 1923 it was named Folkets Rett. At the time of its closure, it was merged into the Trondheim-based Arbeider-Avisen.
History
[edit]Levanger and Environs Social-Democratic Association, the local chapter of the Labor Party, was established on 19 May 1907. An early task for the chapter was to establish a social-democratic newspaper for Levanger, and they established a committee consisting of P. Holthe, Ant. Andersen and Nelius Hallan. The three ultimately became the newspaper's first board, with Holthe serving as chairman and Hallan as editor-in-chief.[1]
This was part of a major expansion of the Labor press at the time. From 1905 to 1913, the number of Labor newspapers increased from nine to thirty-two, four of which were founded in 1912 alone. Naming the newspaper "Foo Sosialdemokrat" was the norm at the time.[2] Indtrøndelagens Socialdemorkat was the second attempt at starting a Labor-newspaper in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, after Framsteg, which had been published in the neighboring town of Steinkjer between 1906 and 1908.[3] Ny Tid had been published in Trondheim for since 1899, but it used several days to reach Levanger, and lacked a local dimension to the news.[4] At the time there were two other newspapers in Levanger, but these were more right-winged: Nordre Trondhjems Amtstidende and Nordenfjeldsk Tidende.[1]
The 1912 annual meeting in Inntrøndelag Labor Party voted in favor of establishing a newspaper in Levanger, and issued an extra membership fee to fund a press fund which would finance the start-up of the operations.[4] The first issue was published on 2 December 1912.[5]
The newspaper had an agreement to have the newspaper printed at the competitor Amtstidende, but after only two issues, they canceled the agreement. Business owners in Levanger started boycotting the newspaper and printing shop as long as they allowed a socialist newspaper to be printed there. Instead, Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat had to be printed in Verdalsøra at Innherreds Folkeblad. Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat received its own printing press in 1914.[4] After it initially came out once or twice a week, it became a thrice-weekly newspaper from it received its own press.[5]
The Danish editor Alfred Kruse was hired as new editor-in-chief in 1914. He was much more radical than Hallan and a pacifist. After the break-out of the First World War, this was disliked by the authorities, and as he was a Danish rather than Norwegian citizen, he was given twenty-four hours to leave the country.[6] He was deported with the police escorting him to Sweden. Reinert Torgeirson acted as editor for a short period, before being replaced by Kristian Andreas Jensen, who was replaced by Arvid Lian in 1917. Hallan returned as editor in 1919 and retained the position until the newspaper closed down.[4]
With the Labor Party joining the Communist International, it was no longer in line with policy to use socialdemocratic terminology. The annual meeting therefore voted to change the name of the newspaper to Folkets Rett ("The Right of the People").[7] The last issue as Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat was published on 28 March 1923, and the first as Folkets Rett on 3 April.[5]
The split of the Labor Party, with the break-out of the Communist Party caused a decline in the readership of Folkets Rett.[4] Unlike in Trondheim, where the Communist Party secured control of Ny Tid, Folkets Rett remained under the control of the Labor Party. Yet, the party needed a new newspaper in Trondheim, and established Arbeider-Avisen in 1924. The party came to believe that they were better served with it serving all of Trøndelag, and in 1927 the annual meeting in Inn-Trøndelag Labor Party voted to close down the newspaper.[8] The last issue came out on 17 June 1927.[5] The assets and staff were taken over by Arbeider-Avisen and Hallan was made local editor for news from Levanger. The subscribers started receiving Arbeider-Avisen as a substitute.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Strømsøe, Reidar (1967). Levanger by's historie : tidsrommet 1836–1918 (in Norwegian). Levanger: B. Turn-Paulsen. pp. 234–235.
- ↑ Koht, Halvdan (1939). Det Norske arbeiderpartis historie 1887–1937 (in Norwegian). Vol. 2. Oslo: Det norske arbeiderpartis Forlag. p. 110.
- ↑ Stene, Morten (2000). "Arbeideravisa Framsteg". SteinkjerSaga (in Norwegian). 10 (1): 2–7.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hansen, Guttorm (1953). Arbeiderbevegelsen i Nord-Trøndelag 50 år (in Norwegian). pp. 59–66.
- 1 2 3 4 Høeg, Tom Arbo (1973). Norske aviser 1763–1969: en bibliografi: Alfabetisk fortegnelse (in Norwegian). Vol. 1. Oslo: University of Oslo Library. pp. 154, 254–255. ISBN 82-7000-014-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link) - ↑ Magnusson, Magne (1985). "Litt om aviser i Levanger". Årsskrift 1985 (in Norwegian). Levanger: Levanger historielag. p. 22. ISSN 0800-1073.
- ↑ Cartfjord, Ståle (1983). Farvel til føderalismen: arbeiderbevegelsen i Trøndelag 1918–23 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Tiden. p. 132.
- 1 2 Øisang, Ole (1934). Arbeiderbevegelsen i Trøndelag (in Norwegian). Trondheim: Arbeider-Avisen. pp. 23–26.