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 |