Read 'em and weep! Don't gamble with your future!
Industrial-safety poster: a hand labelled 'Carelessness' throws two dice whose faces read 'Death', 'Lost sight', 'Shattered health', 'Crippled body', 'Lost earnings' and 'Want'. The tell is the gambling image paired with a list of severe outcomes, a fear-appeal about workplace accidents.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health
- 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, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1615 (NAID 515280).
Text on the object
READ 'EM AND WEEP! CARELESSNESS CRIPPLED BODY LOST EARNINGS WANT LOST SIGHT DEATH SHATTERED HEALTH DON'T GAMBLE WITH YOUR FUTURE! [signature: PACKER] [imprint: LITHO IN U.S.A.] [imprint: Copyright, BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK] [imprint: B-127]
