My Needle Hums Along the Track For Hitler's Ears I'm Pinning Back!
A smiling seamstress at a sewing machine stitches a caricature of Hitler's face into the cloth, his ears pinned back, while a co-worker sits behind her. The rhyme mocks the enemy leader as a figure to be sewn down, and the line 'Brave men shall not die because I faltered' ties the worker's output personally to soldiers' survival.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada; artist Bush
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Mackenzie King Government
- Leader
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Canadian Crown copyright, expired; published 1940s, more than 50 years ago)
Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada; artist Bush, c. 1940-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
My needle hums along the track For Hitler's ears I'm pinning back! BRAVE MEN SHALL NOT DIE BECAUSE I FALTERED This message [illegible] the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada [signature in the picture:] Bush
