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title: '''Thousands are Waiting to Use What You''re Making'' (Canadian Department of Munitions and Supply)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-thousands-are-waiting-winter-1939/
description: A cartoon crowd of smiling sailors, soldiers and airmen presses behind a machinist at his lathe. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[!['Thousands are Waiting to Use What You're Making', 1939 Canada poster: A cartoon crowd of smiling sailors, soldiers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-thousands-are-waiting-winter-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-thousands-are-waiting-winter-1939.jpg)

# 'Thousands are Waiting to Use What You're Making' (Canadian Department of Munitions and Supply)

A cartoon crowd of smiling sailors, soldiers and airmen presses behind a machinist at his lathe. The headline says thousands are waiting to use what he makes: the crowd of ordinary, cheerful servicemen stands in for the whole fighting force (bandwagon), and the workman is drawn as one of them (plain folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Thousands are waiting
To use what you're making

This message is issued by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada

[on sailors' caps:] H.M.C.S.
[signature:] W.A. Winter
```

[← Think - His Life is in Your Hands!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-think-his-life-is-in-your-hands-1939/) [To Victory! With Our Help →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-to-victory-with-our-help-aircraft-production-1939/)

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