---
title: Are You Working with Schwab?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/are-you-working-with-schwab-1918/
description: A photograph shows a man in a suit and bowler hat inspecting a shipyard where workers stand among pipes and scaffolding.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Are You Working with Schwab?

[![Are You Working with Schwab?, 1918 US poster: A photograph shows a man in a suit and bowler hat inspecting a shipyard where](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-working-with-schwab-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/are-you-working-with-schwab-1918.jpg)

# Are You Working with Schwab?

A photograph shows a man in a suit and bowler hat inspecting a shipyard where workers stand among pipes and scaffolding, over a signed-style quotation from the yard's director general. The text promises that credit for the ships will go to those who built them and recasts the workers as working 'with me, not for me.' The tell of testimonial is the named executive speaking in the first person to the shipyard workforce.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Are You Working with Schwab?

[photograph; tiny credit lines at its lower left and below its right edge: illegible]

Charles M. Schwab
Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation
says

"I want everyone in the yards to understand that when we succeed in building these ships, the credit will belong to the men who actually built them

"I want all the men in the shipyards to feel that they are working with me, not for me."
```

[← Americans: Short Wheat Crop Needs Careful Distribution](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/americans-short-wheat-crop-hoover-letter-1918/) [Armi della morte - armi per la vita! Sottoscrivete al prestito della vittoria (Weapons of death, weapons for life! Subscribe to the Victory Loan) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armi-della-morte-prestito-1918/)

## 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.
- [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer)
- [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities)
- [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial)
- [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial)
- [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)