Men wanted today to work on pulpwood cutting, logging and in saw mills
Employment recruiting poster: a painted lumberman in a felt hat and work clothes swings an axe into a large tree trunk, with a tilted white panel reading 'Men wanted today to work on pulpwood cutting, logging and in saw mills' and a red band naming the U.S. Employment Service and the War Manpower Commission. The ordinary working man stands for the job on offer (plain-folks); the poster states no pay or conditions.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Employment Service, War Manpower Commission
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Labor, Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Employment Service, War Manpower Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1349 (NAID 515003).
Text on the object
MEN WANTED TODAY TO WORK ON PULPWOOD CUTTING, LOGGING AND IN SAW MILLS U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION [imprint: ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—610139]
