"[T]his Labour Front is enormously rich, because membership is... compulsory. In December 1935, Dr. Ley said: "We hope and believe that no one will find work in Germany who is not a member of the Labour Front" and a German court has held that an employer is within his rights in dismissing a worker who refuses to join the Labour Front. ...[A]s the Labour Front includes in its membership shopkeepers, professional men and EMPLOYERS ...it has over 18 million members. Every one... pays his contributions... And what is done with... this money? There is no insurance to pay out... when the fascists smashed the trade unions they abolished... sickness and death benefits and other insurance schemes, although they didn't return the money which thousands of workers had contributed... Some... Labour Front money goes in propaganda, quite a lot... to maintain a horde of idle officials, but the bulk... is turned over to the fascist state... for armaments. It is... a thinly disguised... compulsory extra taxation."