Don't let the Absenteeism Bug get you: days worked save lives
Long yellow streamer: a cartoon insect with large wings and bared teeth sits at the left beside a blue disc reading 'Don't let the Absenteeism Bug get you', followed by 'DAYS WORKED SAVE LIVES' in large blue capitals. Absence from work is drawn as a pest, and the slogan ties attendance to lives at the front.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front, War and the military
- 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)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-640 (NAID 514118).
Text on the object
DON'T LET THE Absenteeism Bug GET YOU DAYS WORKED SAVE LIVES [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-[illegible] WPB Streamer No. 5-5. For extra copies address: WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE HEADQUARTERS War Production Board, Washington, D. C.
