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title: 'Whatever your job may be: fight'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-whatever-your-job-may-be-fight-aldwinckle-1940/
description: A helmeted soldier with a rifle, in grey on red, is overlapped by a civilian worker in profile who grips a sledgehammer.
section: Collection
---

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[![Whatever your job may be: fight, 1940 Canada poster: A helmeted soldier with a rifle, in grey on red, is overlapped](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-whatever-your-job-may-be-fight-aldwinckle-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-whatever-your-job-may-be-fight-aldwinckle-1940.jpg)

# Whatever your job may be: fight

A helmeted soldier with a rifle, in grey on red, is overlapped by a civilian worker in profile who grips a sledgehammer, with the line 'Whatever your job may be' above the single word 'FIGHT'. Putting the worker's face and tool in the soldier's frame lends the soldier's standing to civilian work (transfer).

## 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

```
WHATEVER YOUR JOB MAY BE
FIGHT

PRINTED IN CANADA
ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, OTTAWA, UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES
1E-3

[signature in the artwork:] Aldwinckle
```

[← Warning: The Sharp Ears of Enemy Agents Are Always Listening for Scraps of Information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-warning-sharp-ears-of-enemy-agents-gardiner-1940/) [Careless Talk Costs Lives: "...strictly between these four walls!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/careless-talk-four-walls-fougasse-1940/)

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