Are You Sufficiently Skilled in Your Trade to Earn a Higher Trade Rate?
A large yellow arrow rises from a red spanner-shaped base through the labels 'Class III' and 'Class II' towards a blue sky, under the question 'Are you sufficiently skilled in your trade to earn a higher trade rate?'. The graphic shows only the upward path and the line 'no limit to the numbers allowed ... in most trades' (card-stacking: the qualifier and any limits are left to small print).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British Army (tradesman upgrading scheme; issuer inferred, see notes); artist Abram Games; printed for HMSO by Geo. Gibbons Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
UK government poster; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), WWII Foreign Posters, NAID 44266210.
Text on the object
ARE YOU SUFFICIENTLY SKILLED IN YOUR TRADE TO EARN A HIGHER TRADE RATE? if you are a Class II or a Class III tradesman ...and are capable of passing a trade-test in a higher class, submit an application for upgrading to your O.C. Company etc. NOW. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE NUMBERS ALLOWED IN CLASS I OR CLASS II TRADESMEN IN MOST TRADES [signature:] A. GAMES PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY GEO. GIBBONS LTD. 51—4143
