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title: 'Make It Fit to Fight: Get your work into the "Scrap" - not the scrap heap'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-make-it-fit-to-fight-scrap-1942/
description: Oversized slanted lettering reads 'Make it FIT to fight' over a yellow-to-cream ground, with a blue band below urging workers to get their work into
section: Collection
---

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[![Make It Fit to Fight: Get your work into the "Scrap" - not the scrap heap, 1942 Canada poster: Oversized slanted lettering](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-make-it-fit-to-fight-scrap-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-make-it-fit-to-fight-scrap-1942.jpg)

# Make It Fit to Fight: Get your work into the "Scrap" - not the scrap heap

Oversized slanted lettering reads 'Make it FIT to fight' over a yellow-to-cream ground, with a blue band below urging workers to get their work into the 'SCRAP' and not the scrap heap. The poster has no picture; the word 'fit' links precise workmanship to a fighter's readiness (transfer), and the quoted 'SCRAP' is left unexplained.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MAKE IT
FIT
to fight
Get your work into the "SCRAP"
–not the scrap heap
ISSUED BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA, FOR DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AND SUPPLY.
PRINTED IN CANADA
IE-6
```

[← It's Got to Fit... To Do Its Bit! Get your work into the "Scrap" not the scrap heap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-its-got-to-fit-to-do-its-bit-1942/) [Men of Valor - They Fight for You (Merchant Navy) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-men-of-valor-merchant-navy-rogers-1942/)

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