Content note: Wartime caricature of a Japanese soldier as a grimacing round yellow face with exaggerated teeth, being punched by a fist labelled American Labor. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Don't save his face! Every blow counts in the battle for production
Production poster: a fist on a forearm labelled AMERICAN LABOR punches a caricatured round yellow face with slanted eyes, large buck teeth and a cap bearing the rising-sun emblem, against red-and-white sun rays, with stars flying. 'Don't save his face!' and 'Every blow counts in the battle for production' tie factory output to the blow. The enemy is drawn as a racial caricature of the kind common in wartime US print.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, 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
- Home front, Labor, Race and ethnicity
- 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, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-681 (NAID 514160).
Text on the object
"Don't Save His Face!" AMERICAN LABOR EVERY BLOW COUNTS IN THE BATTLE FOR PRODUCTION [signature:] PACKER [imprint:] PRINTED IN U.S.A. [imprint:] Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK
