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title: Go Ahead, Please - Take Day Off!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/go-ahead-please-take-day-off-1941/
description: 'Company-sponsored absenteeism poster: a grinning, bespectacled caricature of a Japanese soldier in a cap with the red sun disc rubs his hands together'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Shows a racial caricature of a Japanese soldier with exaggerated teeth and eyes, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Go Ahead, Please - Take Day Off!, 1941 US poster: Company-sponsored absenteeism poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/go-ahead-please-take-day-off-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/go-ahead-please-take-day-off-1941.jpg)

# Go Ahead, Please - Take Day Off!

Company-sponsored absenteeism poster: a grinning, bespectacled caricature of a Japanese soldier in a cap with the red sun disc rubs his hands together beside the line 'Go ahead, please - take day off!' The enemy is drawn as pleased by workers' absence, with exaggerated teeth and eyes, and a Texaco logo appears at lower right.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Go ahead,
please-
TAKE DAY
OFF !

TEXACO
T
REG. T. M.
```

[← Give 'Em Both Barrels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/give-em-both-barrels-1941/) [Soviet War Poster (Hitler in Chains, reproduced by Russian War Relief Inc.) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hitler-in-chains-soviet-war-poster-russian-war-relief-1941/)

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