--- title: Are You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less (Ssh - Don't Wake Him) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/are-you-one-of-these-80-absentees-uk-1939/ description: 'A sleeping man in bed is shown above caricatured faces of Hitler, a Japanese figure and Mussolini, fingers to lips: ''Ssh - don''t wake him''.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Are You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less **Content note:** Racial caricature of a Japanese figure beside caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini, shown as published in a British wartime poster. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Are You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less, 1939 UK poster: A sleeping man in bed is shown above](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-one-of-these-80-absentees-uk-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-one-of-these-80-absentees-uk-1939.jpg) # Are You One of These? 80 Absentees - 80 Tons Lost or One Tank Less (Ssh - Don't Wake Him) A sleeping man in bed is shown above caricatured faces of Hitler, a Japanese figure and Mussolini, fingers to lips: 'Ssh - don't wake him'. The tell is the caricature of the Axis leaders, with the loss of 80 tons of coal framed as 'one tank less', which presents absence from work as help to the enemy. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ARE YOU ONE OF THESE? 80 ABSENTEES-80 TONS LOST OR ONE TANK LESS Drawn by a Miner JOHN T. ROE SSH- DON'T WAKE HIM [imprint:] ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON, LTD. 51-3595 E. 4.3. ``` [← Title card from a captured Japanese newsreel: the Emperor commends the Xuzhou campaign (May 1938)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xuzhou-imperial-commendation-newsreel-card-1938/) ['Askari wetu washinda Wajapani / Smash the Japs!' (British poster for East Africa) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/askari-wetu-smash-the-japs-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)