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 The Office undertakes periodical campaigns under 
such slogans "GoodLight," "Less Noise," "Clean
Workers in Clean Factories" and "Less Dust." In the
first connection it claims to have brought it about
that German electrical manufacturers have ceased to
produce the old-fashioned glare shade and now sell
only models approved as less harmful for the workers' 
eyes. The Office also frequently initiates
campaigns within particular industries, having, just
completed, for instance, a clean-up of tanning plants
which are among the dirtiest, and being now occupied
with a similar campaign in the German shoe factories.
 
 Labor-Front officials claim that the activity
of the employers in improving working conditions is
almost entirely voluntary inasmuch as there is no
way of forcing them to undertake it. This would
appear, however, to be only partially true. It
must be remembered that in each plant there is a
representative of the Labor Front who is probably
well acquainted with the economic status of the particular 
enterprise. If he and his fellow-workers
observe that the plant is making money, and if they
feel that it might therefore spend more on improving 
working conditions (a wage raise being out of
the question in view of official policy "freezing"
wages at the 1933 level), it is quite possible that
he will tell the manager so, and should the latter
refuse to accept his suggestion, that the cell leader
 
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