Don't let this bug get you!
Bulletin-board placard: a large winged cartoon insect with bulging eyes and a grimacing mouth faces the viewer, with the word ABSENTEEISM curved across its body and the headline 'Don't let this bug get you!'. Labelling the pest with the word for missed work is the name-calling; the threat of being 'got' is the fear-appeal. Signed off 'Your Labor Management Committee'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Labor Management Committee, 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
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
Labor Management Committee, War Production Drive Headquarters. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-679 (NAID 514158).
Text on the object
DON'T LET THIS BUG get you! ABSENTEEISM Your LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-525295 WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE HEADQUARTERS BULLETIN BOARD PLACARD NO. 28
