Content note: Caricatured Japanese officers with exaggerated teeth and features, crushed in a lever, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Put on the Squeeze
A smiling worker in overalls squeezes a red V-shaped lever that crushes five caricatured Japanese officers, drawn with exaggerated teeth, glasses and lolling tongues, under the slogan 'Nations Fall When Workers Stall'. Name-calling by caricature of the enemy, with the worker and a factory slogan as the call to output.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Albert H. Weinbrenner Co. (Milwaukee), employee prize-winning slogan; Mandel Engraving Co. & Art Studios
- 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)
Albert H. Weinbrenner Co.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1595 (NAID 515260).
Text on the object
PUT ON THE SQUEEZE Nations Fall When Workers Stall EMPLOYEE PRIZE WINNING SLOGAN ALBERT H. WEINBRENNER CO. MILWAUKEE * MARSHFIELD * MERRILL * ANTIGO [imprint:] LITHO IN U. S. OF A. [imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1942, MANDEL ENGRAVING CO. & ART STUDIOS, INC., MILWAUKEE, WIS.
