Content note: Cartoon caricature of a workman with an exaggerated long nose being kicked out of a doorway. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Out! Don't listen to his song and dance. Give the goof a kick in the pants!
Cartoon poster: a giant shoe marked 'All of Us' kicks a long-nosed, wide-mouthed workman labelled 'Tom Trouble' out of a factory door while co-workers laugh from the doorway. The tell is the label and the caption: 'Tom Trouble' and 'the goof' name a type of shop-floor complainer, and the collective kick presents expulsion by the group as the remedy.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bressler Editorial Cartoons, New York (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
Bressler Editorial Cartoons. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1495 (NAID 515160).
Text on the object
Out ! TOM TROUBLE ALL OF US DON'T LISTEN TO HIS SONG AND DANCE GIVE THE GOOF A KICK IN THE PANTS ! [signature: Packer] [imprint, lower left: LITHO IN U.S.A.] [imprint, bottom centre: printer's mark, 8-43 (as read)] [imprint, lower right: Copyright, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York]
