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title: Use Your Pay During the War to Add to Your Pay After the War!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-use-your-pay-during-the-war-to-add-to-your-pay-after-the-war-1939/
description: A workman in shirtsleeves and braces, seen from behind, takes a War Savings Certificate from one window clerk and holds his pay from a second window marked
section: Collection
---

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# Use Your Pay During the War to Add to Your Pay After the War!

A workman in shirtsleeves and braces, seen from behind, takes a War Savings Certificate from one window clerk and holds his pay from a second window marked PAYMASTER. Text reads 'Use your pay during the war, to ADD to your pay after the war! Buy War Savings Certificates'. The tell for plain-folks is the unnamed ordinary wage-earner as the figure for the audience to identify with.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
PAYMASTER
Use your pay during the war, to ADD to your pay after the war!
BUY WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
```

[← Use These Ideas to Make Your Stamp Drive a Success](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-use-these-ideas-to-make-your-stamp-drive-a-success-1939/) [Voluntary Savings - It's Up to You Now →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-voluntary-savings-its-up-to-you-now-1939/)

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