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title: Prepare for your war job now! Millions are needed. Short free courses
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prepare-for-your-war-job-now-1942/
description: 'Wide home-front chart poster: a smiling Uncle Sam figure in a star-spangled top hat gestures toward thirteen columns.'
section: Collection
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[![Prepare for your war job now! Millions are needed. Short free courses, 1942 US poster: Wide home-front chart poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/prepare-for-your-war-job-now-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/prepare-for-your-war-job-now-1942.jpg)

# Prepare for your war job now! Millions are needed. Short free courses

Wide home-front chart poster: a smiling Uncle Sam figure in a star-spangled top hat gestures toward thirteen columns, each headed by a type of worker (junior worker, woman, foreman and others) with a row of what to do and where to apply for free training. The technique is faint: the 'Millions are needed' line and direct address to every group imply everyone is joining the war job effort.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PREPARE FOR YOUR WAR JOB NOW!
Millions are needed · Short free courses
If you are...
What to do...
Apply...

? | Already Working | Find out if your work is essential to winning the war | Your employer or local United States Employment Office
? | Employed in less essential industry | Investigate short free conversion training courses | Local U.S. Employment Office
A JUNIOR WORKER | Needed for work after school hours, or during vacation | Find out how you can train to become an apprentice, an agricultural or war production worker | Your school principal
A FARMER'S FRIEND | Anxious to help grow more food this summer | Find out how to get free Victory Corps training and emergency farm employment | Your school principal
A FARM WORKER | Interested in farm mechanics and farm production | Find out how to repair farm equipment and grow more crops. Take free rural war production training | Nearest high school or local United States Employment Office
UNEMPLOYED | Out of school | Receive wages while in training for war industries-either in your home community or in an NYA resident center | Nearest NYA office or local United States Employment Office
A WOMAN | Anxious to help Don't delay! | Find out today how free training can help you fight on a farm or in a factory | Local school, Local newspaper or local United States Employment Office
A NEW WORKER | Unskilled | Find out about free vocational school - short term pre-employment training | Vocational school or local United States Employment Office
A PRODUCTION WORKER | In a war industry and desirous of rendering better war service | Find out about free vocational school - short term supplementary training | Your employer, your foreman, your union, vocational school or local United States Employment Office
AN INDUSTRIAL WORKER | Doing skilled machine operator work | Find out about short term advancing worker and apprenticeship programs | See your foreman, your union or local United States Employment Office
A FOREMAN | A foreman, A supervisor | Find out how to improve ... to direct the work of others | Vocational school director, nearest college or local United States Employment Office
TECHNICALLY INCLINED | A high school graduate, a responsible industrial worker, a technical or professional worker | Find out how to increase your efficiency, prepare for essential employment or promotion, by taking short term EMSWT training | Nearest college or local United States Employment Office
PROFESSIONALLY SKILLED | A highly skilled scientific, professional or executive worker | Can your skill be used to better advantage in your country's need? | Register with "National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel" or local United States Employment Office

WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 19[illegible]-O-[illegible]]
```

[← Prayer to Jehanne of France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prayer-to-jehanne-of-france-1942/) [Having seen the quality of the work and of the workers on our production lines (Poster No. 13) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/presidents-report-to-the-press-1942/)

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