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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
War Manpower Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1539 (NAID 515204).
Text on the object
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]]
