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years 1929 and 1937. This decrease affects primarily 
the unskilled worker, for, as has been noted 
previously, many workers in the skilled and
semi-skilled categories are earning more money owing to overtime labor and orang to their transfer
to higher wage groups.
 
 Although it can by no means be claimed that
Strength through Joy has given a final answer, it
nevertheless has at least raised the question as
to whether a worker would really derive more enjoyment from a wage increase which he might spend foolishly (even though the right to do so might give him
some satisfaction), than he would in spending a part
of his savings upon a trip or form of entertainment
tried and tested by an organization, which specializes, and is experienced, in arranging the workers'
spare time in a manner found to offer the most
pleasure to people of his class. National Socialists emphasize particularly that Strength through
Joy is introducing a new relationship between the
industrial yorker and the community whereby the
former, fully conscious of his responsibilities to
the community, looks to the latter to furnish him
a surplus value.
 
 With respect to the point as to whether an
organization similar to Strength-through Joy would
prove successful in other countries, an examination
must first be made of the causes which make the institution workable in Germany. In brief, two factors
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