Content note: Caricature of the enemy leader being punched, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Keep punching every day
Colour poster of a worker with a lunch pail punching a time clock while a larger shadow figure behind him lands a fist on a snarling caricature of the enemy leader. The headline 'Keep Punching.. Every Day!' ties clocking in to hitting the enemy, a transfer of the war onto the daily shift, signed by 'Your Labor-Management Production Committee'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters, for the Labor-Management Production Committee (artist Seaman)
- 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
- Labor, Home front, War and the military
- 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)
War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters, for the Labor-Management Production Committee (artist Seaman). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1204 (NAID 514810).
Text on the object
KEEP PUNCHING.. EVERY DAY! Your LABOR-MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION COMMITTEE [signature: Seaman] WPB Poster No. 39. For extra copies, address: WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE HEADQUARTERS, War Production Board, Washington, D. C. [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office 1943 - O-591141]
