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
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Emergency Fleet Corporation (Charles M. Schwab, Director General)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Emergency Fleet Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-46.
Text on the object
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."
