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Jetez vos Chiffons dans la Bataille! [Throw Your Rags into the Battle!], 1940 Canada poster: A knotted bundle of rags fills

Jetez vos Chiffons dans la Bataille! [Throw Your Rags into the Battle!]

A knotted bundle of rags fills the poster under the French headline 'Throw your rags into the battle!', with tags linking wool to uniforms and blankets, cotton to factory wiping cloths and canvas to military maps. The battle language moves military purpose onto household scraps (transfer).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Transfer
Date
1940
Period
Second World War
Made by
Service de l'information pour l'Office national de récupération (National Salvage Office), under Hon. J. T. Thorson, Minister of National War Services, Ottawa
Region
North America
Country
Canada
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Mackenzie King Government
Leader
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes
Home front, Economy and finance, War and the military
Event
World War II
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired; no URAA restoration)
Service de l'information pour l'Office national de récupération, Ottawa. National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 44268101, local ID 44-PF-807.

Text on the object

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

Jetez vos
CHIFFONS
dans la
bataille!

LAINE  UNIFORMES - COUVERTURES
COTON  POUR L'ESSUYAGE DANS LES USINES
TOILE  CARTES MILITAIRES

CONSULTEZ VOTRE COMITÉ DE RÉCUPÉRATION

PUBLIÉ PAR LE SERVICE DE L'INFORMATION POUR L'OFFICE NATIONAL DE RÉCUPÉRATION, AVEC L'AUTORISATION DE L'HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTRE DES SERVICES NATIONAUX DE GUERRE.  Imprimé au Canada.  S-2F

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Throw your
RAGS
into the
battle!

WOOL  UNIFORMS - BLANKETS
COTTON  FOR WIPING IN FACTORIES
CANVAS  MILITARY MAPS

CONSULT YOUR SALVAGE COMMITTEE

PUBLISHED BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, WITH THE AUTHORIZATION OF HON. J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES.  Printed in Canada.  S-2F

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