Mind your digits
Workplace-safety cartoon: a drowsy worker in a dunce cap marked 'Axidunce' feeds a board toward a spinning circular saw while its guard lies discarded on the floor, beside a sign reading 'Mind your digits'. The label ridicules the careless worker (name-calling) and the unguarded blade points to the risk of injury (fear-appeal, faint).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon signed Leo)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, Health
- 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)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-441D (NAID 513903).
Text on the object
MIND YOUR DIGITS AXIDUNCE [signature:] Leo FOR OWI [imprint:] O.I-1980
