Six million people were unemployed when the Nazis took power in 1933 and by 1937 there were fewer than a million.[258] This was in part due to the removal of women from the workforce.[259] Real wages dropped by 25 percent between 1933 and 1938.[246] After the dissolution of the trade unions in May 1933, their funds were seized and their leadership arrested,[260] including those who attempted to co-operate with the NSDAP.[33] A new organisation, the German Labour Front, was created and placed under NSDAP functionary Robert Ley.[260] The average work week was 43 hours in 1933; by 1939 this increased to 47 hours.[261]