Free Workers - Free Industry United - we'll win!
Split image: a machinist at a lathe under 'Free Workers' and a blast furnace, skyline and locomotive under 'Free Industry', joined by the line 'United - we'll win!'. The tell is the pairing of the two nouns with the undefined 'free' and a shared 'we' that includes the viewer in the winning side.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co., Rochester, N.Y.); artist C. R. Miller
- 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
- Labor, Economy and finance
- 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)
Think American Institute (Kelly-Read & Co.). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-837 (NAID 514331).
Text on the object
FREE WORKERS FREE INDUSTRY United-we'll win! [signature:] C R MILLER [imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. No. 164-COPYRIGHT,-KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y. THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
