Content note: Japanese and German soldiers are drawn as apes, labelled 'Jap treachery' and 'Nazi butchery', with a bayonet and blood shown. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Come on, you workers - Give 'em hell!
Industrial-morale poster: a tank labelled 'America's productive might' fires over three ape-like figures labelled 'Jap treachery' and 'Nazi butchery', with 'fifth column' saboteurs running behind them, under the headline 'Come on, you workers - Give 'em hell!' The enemy is shown as animals and labelled with pejorative terms (name-calling), and the sheet asks war workers to produce more.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- "Victory-Builders" Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor, Home front
- 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)
"Victory-Builders" Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-590 (NAID 514070).
Text on the object
COME ON, YOU WORKERS- AMERICA'S PRODUCTIVE MIGHT JAP TREACHERY NAZI BUTCHERY 5TH COLUMN GIVE 'EM HELL! [signature:] Packer [imprint:] Copyright 1942 by "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division of BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc. [imprint:] Printed in U.S.A.
