"He can't quit his job, stick to yours!!"
A soldier in a helmet, seen from behind, aims a machine gun from a foxhole toward distant explosions and aircraft. The caption sets the soldier's duty beside the viewer's own job. The device is comparison of the viewer's workplace with the front line, aimed at war-worker retention.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor, Home front
- 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, RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-181 (NAID 535666).
Text on the object
"HE CAN'T QUIT HIS JOB~STICK TO YOURS!!" Alston OWI
