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title: America arms! For national safety. Defense program has urgent need for specialized workers
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/america-arms-civil-service-1941/
description: 'Recruiting poster for federal civil-service jobs: a drawn hand turns a red micrometer gauge over silhouettes of a battleship, a tank.'
section: Collection
---

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[![America arms! For national safety. Defense program has urgent need for specialized workers, 1941 US poster: Recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/america-arms-civil-service-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/america-arms-civil-service-1941.jpg)

# America arms! For national safety. Defense program has urgent need for specialized workers

Recruiting poster for federal civil-service jobs: a drawn hand turns a red micrometer gauge over silhouettes of a battleship, a tank, a bomber and a carrier. Red type picks out 'urgent need' and the trades wanted. The technique is faint: an appeal to 'national safety' and 'unusual opportunities', with only the benefits of the work listed.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AMERICA ARMS!
FOR NATIONAL SAFETY
DEFENSE PROGRAM HAS URGENT
NEED FOR SPECIALIZED WORKERS
The Federal Civil Service offers unusual opportunities for well trained men to secure good jobs in the Federal Government and serve their country in the national emergency. Among those especially needed are certain skilled tradesmen such as machinists, toolmakers, diemakers, and aircraft mechanics. Also urgently needed are professional engineers of all kinds, inspectors of engineering materials in mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, communications and ordnance fields, economists, draftsmen, chemists, nurses and radio technicians. See the Local Civil Service Secretary at any first- or second-class post office for full information and application blanks.
U. S. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, Washington, D. C.
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941-O-[illegible]]
```

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