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
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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Texaco (sponsor logo)
- 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)
Texaco (sponsor logo). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-102 (NAID 513555).
Text on the object
Go ahead, please- TAKE DAY OFF ! TEXACO T REG. T. M.
