Right down your alley! Chalk up a perfect score!

Cartoon poster: a ball marked 'Your Job' strikes ten screaming bowling pins, each labelled with a fault: carelessness, absenteeism, covering up, loafing, rumors, gossip, breakage, waste, tardiness, mistakes. The tell is the personified pins, with faces and negative labels attached to workplace behaviour; the closing line is 'Chalk up a perfect score!'.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Name-calling

Date: 1941
Period: Second World War
Made by: Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.
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
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-1646 (NAID 515313).

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

RIGHT DOWN
YOUR ALLEY!

CARELESSNESS
ABSENTEEISM
COVERING UP
LOAFING
RUMORS
GOSSIP
BREAKAGE
WASTE
TARDINESS
MISTAKES

YOUR
JOB

CHALK UP A
PERFECT SCORE!

[signature:] [illegible]
[imprint:] LITHO IN U.S.A.   [illegible printer's mark] 8-[illegible]   Copyright. BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK

Small imprint characters at the foot are partly illegible.