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title: '"Delavci, tovarne so vaša last!" (Workers, the factories are your property!), workers'' council election poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/delavci-tovarne-so-vasa-last-yugoslavia-1951/
description: Two men in work clothes and one in a suit lean over an unrolled plan before a window onto blast furnaces and chimneys, above the text 'Workers, the…
section: Collection
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[!["Delavci, tovarne so vaša last!" (Workers, the factories are your property!), workers' council election poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/delavci-tovarne-so-vasa-last-yugoslavia-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/delavci-tovarne-so-vasa-last-yugoslavia-1951.jpg)

# "Delavci, tovarne so vaša last!" (Workers, the factories are your property!), workers' council election poster

Two men in work clothes and one in a suit lean over an unrolled plan before a window onto blast furnaces and chimneys, above the text 'Workers, the factories are your property! Confirm with your voting turnout your resolute will for the further development of workers' councils!' The ownership claim is a virtue-word appeal (glittering generalities), and the vote is framed as confirming a will that the sheet has already stated.

- **Date:** 1951
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovene-language election poster (issuing body and artist not printed on the sheet)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Yugoslavia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=yugoslavia)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=federal-peoples-republic-of-yugoslavia)
- **Leader:** [Josip Broz Tito](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=josip-broz-tito)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor), [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica (NUK), Ljubljana, dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-3TTU30VQ), via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delavci,_tovarne_so_va%C5%A1a_last.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Commons PD-Yugoslavia tag, stated basis; NUK site footer reserves rights) Unknown author, Yugoslavia, 1951. Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, dLib.si, URN:NBN:SI:IMG-3TTU30VQ

## Text on the object

Original (Slovene) · checked against a source transcription

```
DELAVCI,
TOVARNE SO VAŠA LAST!
POTRDITE Z VOLILNO UDELEŽBO
VAŠO ODLOČNO VOLJO
ZA NADALJNI RAZVOJ
DELAVSKIH SVETOV!

[emblem at lower right: a five-pointed star and a leaf, no text]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Workers, the factories are your property! Confirm with your voting turnout your resolute will for the further development of workers' councils!
```

Read from the image and matched to the title and text given by the holding library (dLib) and on the Commons file page. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

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