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title: 'Labour and management: this is our strength'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-labour-and-management-this-is-our-strength-faimmel-1939/
description: A huge hand in a shirt cuff holds up a silhouette of a factory town with smoking chimneys against a sunset, above the headline 'Labour and Management'
section: Collection
---

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[![Labour and management: this is our strength, 1939 Canada poster: A huge hand in a shirt cuff holds up a silhouette](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-labour-and-management-this-is-our-strength-faimmel-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-labour-and-management-this-is-our-strength-faimmel-1939.jpg)

# Labour and management: this is our strength

A huge hand in a shirt cuff holds up a silhouette of a factory town with smoking chimneys against a sunset, above the headline 'Labour and Management' and the claim that they are 'pooling their strength to give us the means for victory in war .. and progress in peace'. 'Strength', 'victory' and 'progress' are virtue words standing in for any stated arrangement between workers and employers (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
THIS IS OUR STRENGTH

LABOUR and
MANAGEMENT
are pooling their strength to
give us the means for victory
in war..and progress in peace.

Printed in Canada
ISSUED BY NATIONAL FILM BOARD, OTTAWA.  NFB 7-E

[signature in the artwork:] Faimmel
```

[← La Ménagère en guerre récupère : caoutchouc, métaux, os, matières grasses \[The Housewife at War Salvages: rubber, metals, bones, fats\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-la-menagere-en-guerre-recupere-1939/) [Le 'Centre Nerveux' de la Guerre \[The 'Nerve Centre' of the War\] (Canadian poster in French) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-le-centre-nerveux-de-la-guerre-french-1939/)

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