inasmuch as, being unaccustomed to traveling and
arranging their spare time on their own initiative,
they welcome being guided around and being told
what to do.
 
 It would seem that Strength through Joy costs
every factory a certain amount of money, specifically in the sums which plant-owners are induced to
spend on the improvement of working conditions, on
the construction of sport fields and club houses,
and in providing numbers of workers with free trips,
or contributing to the price of these trips. An
American firm employing about 3,000 workers in Germany expended, for instance, about RM 17,000 last
year on Strength through Joy. The sums spent are
on the whole not regarded as exorbitant, particularly as German manufacturing businesses are at
present enjoying considerable prosperity, and it
is explained further, that while some pressure is
unquestionably exerted by the Labor Front, the latter has become more reasonable lately in its expectations. Strength through Joy may indeed be purchased as a form of penance, as it was by one firm
which, after becoming involved in difficulties with
the Party, bought itself back into favor by spending large amounts on workers' recreation.
 
 Most employers apparently accept Strength
through Joy as playing a definite role in industrial relations and as a factor contributing to a
greater or less degree to the maintenance of indus-