amount by which their income exceeds the maximum
rate, plus the usual price for participation. For
instance, a single person with a monthly income of
400 marks who wishes to take part in a Strength
through Joy trip costing 50 marks according to
schedule, would be obliged to pay 50 marks plus
l0 per cent of 100 marks - the amount by which his
income exceeds the maximum limit of 300 marks- or
a total of 60 marks. As stated before, these schedules 
are not rigid and a young girl, for instance,
with a secretarial job who lives at home with her
family, who in turn are well-to-do, would be required 
to pay a surcharge even though her income
did not exceed 300 marks per month. In the last
analysis questions of this nature are decided by the
local offices of the Labor Front.
 
 The surplus charges are used for the-purpose
of giving trips gratuitously to impecunious but deserving 
workmen or for allowing them a subsidy towards 
paying for a holiday journey. In this manner-
the payment of an extra charge enables persons with
higher incomes to take part, whereas by rigid rules
of exclusion both would have to forego the benefit.
Naturally,  however, the great majority of the participants 
belong to the class whose incomes are below the maximum rates.
 
 Individual factories adopt various policies 
with respect to the granting of free trips to their