#war workers

[peachesodell]

The heroic lady workers of World War II.

This image is from 1943...

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

""The Smith a Mighty Man Was She…" Toronto Star. October 10, 1942. Page 3. --- Holding transportation to be as vital to victory as shells, tanks and guns, attractive Beatrice McKelvey of Washington, D.C., has become a railroad worker for the duration, and is developing a fine set of muscles in the process.

[sayruq]

[kropotkindersurprise]

^^ That's the CEO, he lives in San Francisco. This ad campaign purposely antagonizing workers must have been conceived and planned before a certain recent news story involving a widely hated CEO. "The way the world works is changing", indeed.

[nando161mando]

Exploitation of workers...

[bajoop-sheeb]

Meditation by Yoong Bae

[ringosmistress]

[blighted-lights]

ravage is #1 personal space stealer and heater, 10/10 would recommend having him as an amica. usually he'd be sleeping curled around soundwave's head but the other cassettes are out harassing starscream on patrol, so soundwave's chest is free real estate

anyways send me asks with ur soundwave and ravage hcs and mayhaps i'll draw them soon

[chamerionwrites]

”Your comfort is not more valuable than another person’s life, let alone hundreds or thousands of other people’s lives” is a very simple and obvious ethical concept and yet USAmericans will regularly stand up and argue the opposite with their whole chests. Peak imperialism brainworms

[joyishome]

Israel is Intentionally targeting press in Gaza beacuse they know they are committing mass war crimes and genocide and doesn't want the world to see it. But they take to twitter to provide fake evidence against Palestine, which has been proved as fake hundreds of times. The villainization of the Palestinian people is outrageous. The audacity is un real.

[alwaysbewoke]

wow. "chiquita" and "death squads" are not things i expected to see in the same sentence.

[milkcioccolato]

Poor feral baby Shin has never used a public transport in her entire life, she doesn’t know how they work

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DRESSED SAFELY THESE WAR WORKERS LOSE NOTHING IN APPEARANCE," Toronto Star. February 16, 1943. Page 3. ---- 20,000 WARPLANT VERONICAS MUST CHANGE THEIR HAIR-DO ---- Too Many Imitators of Star Are Tangling Tresses in Machinery --- SHE'LL HELP, TOO --- By FREDERICK C. OTΗΜΑΝ Hollywood, Feb. 16 - (BUP) - The federal government cracked down on Veronica Lake today as a men- ace to the war effort. It claimed too many lady airplane workers, imitating her peek-a-boo bob, had scalped themselves in the machinery.

Miss Lake said okay. She said she was tired of looking at the world through one eye, anyway. and that henceforth she'd wear her hair on the top of her head.

The war manpower commission took up the problem of half blind war workers with the war production board, which wrote Paramount Pictures, Inc., which notified Miss Lake, who said:

"Any woman who wears her hair over one eye is silly. I never have worn it that way, myself, except in pictures. It made a good trade mark on the screen, but it was hard. mighty hard, to see where I was going."

The situation concerning 20,000 Veronica Lakes trying to operate turret lathes in war plants all over the nation first reached the desk of Mary Brewster White of the war manpower commission (woman- power division).

Driven Near Mad To Monroe Greenthal of the war production board she sent an inter- office memo: "Subject, Veronica Lake's hair."

"The working gal's indifference to the dangers of long flowing hair- do's has driven personnel directors to the last stages of profanity." wrote Miss White. "Veronica Lake has had a tremendous influence because of her unfettered mane upon too large a percentage of ladies engaged in turning out the ammunition."

Miss White added that she was delighted to note that Miss Lake's hair had gone up in her last movie. and said she believed the war manpower commission and the war production board should do everything possible to keep Lake's topknot on top. As she put it:

"The effect upon war production could be nothing less than electrify- ing if all the women suddenly dis- covered that there was something rather 'old hat about long-haired disorder. It would be swell to learn that Veronica, like all the other girls, is working harder and wants her beauty strictly streamlined. She might say long hair and one eye are all right for the home, but that two eyes and short hair are necessary on the job. Thanks, thanks, and thanks."

Had Nothing to Do With It Greenthal mailed this letter to Hollywood, with a note of his own in which he said he thought Miss White had something, all right, and how's to persuade Miss Lake to say the peek-a-boo bob is a thing of the past? This, he said, would save many a feminine stamp-press operator from losing her locks in the gears.

When this communication from Washington reached the studio, the publicists leaped to life and last were seen leading Miss Lake to the machine shop, to photograph her with her tresses tangled in the camshafts.

She said she didn't quite understand all the fuss. She said she had nothing to do with her one-eye hair-dress, anyhow.

"What happened was I was making my first movie test as a drunk," she said. "That hank of hair came down in front of my eye - and the head men insisted I leave it that way. I've been worrying with it, and stumbling through life, ever since. This request from the government isn't only a pleasure; it's a relief."

Everything all right now, war manpower commission?

Image captions: Top: HERE IS HOW WAR WORKERS CAN DRESS SAFELY AND SMARTLY

Left: Most safely dressed war worker is the title given Kathe Vandenberg after a country-wide safety drive. Kathe, 22, is employed in a Los Angeles plant as a hydraulic fitting worker.

right: VERONICA LAKE will uncover her eye

[sayruq]

30 PRCS aid workers have been killed not counting the ones in the ambulance above. By the end of April, Israel killed 253 aid workers and targeted aid groups 8 times

[nando161mando]

#1: “let’s form a union.”

[just-a-repa]

@charmwasjess had an amazing idea from Dooku's dick- i mean lightsaber reveal in Tales of the Jedi, so i made a little illustration out of it :>