Let's smash the bottleneck
Two hands swing sledgehammers labelled EMPLOYER and EMPLOYEE at a funnel-shaped bottleneck choking a stream of aircraft, tanks, ships and shells. The tell is a joint-effort call aimed at both sides of industry; the technique is faint here, mostly a shared-action appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Appreciate America, Inc. (Chicago)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, 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)
Appreciate America, Inc. (Chicago). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-414E (NAID 513870).
Text on the object
APPRECIATE ★ AMERICA EMPLOYER EMPLOYEE LET'S SMASH THE Bottleneck RED FOR COURAGE WHITE FOR HONOR BLUE FOR JUSTICE [imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1941, APPRECIATE AMERICA INC., 130 NO. WELLS ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
