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 |