THE FINANCING OF STRENGTH THROUGH JOY            
 
 The Labor Front which sponsors Strength through
Joy is one of the richest organizations in Germany,
but just how rich it is cannot be ascertained inas-
much as no detailed report has ever been published
concerning its finances. In a private conversation
at which the writer was present, Dr. Ley mentioned
that the Labor Front had an annual turnover of over
2 billion marks (i.e., income and out-go of money)
and he stated confidentially that it enjoyed much
prosperity that the Reich Ministry of Finance had
made attempts to levy taxes upon it.
 
 The wealth of the Labor Front derives in part
from the funds confiscated from the former trade
unions in May 1933 (amounting, so Dr. Ley declared
in a speech delivered in Nuremberg in 1937, to
RM 120,000,000) but chiefly from contributions from
members, including not only workers but the employers as well. The following is a partial scale of
the monthly contributions based on the income of
individual members: