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title: Save your fingers by keeping guard down and using push stick!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/save-your-fingers-push-stick-1945/
description: 'Industrial safety cartoon: a rectangular figure with a scowling face and a circular saw blade at its side, saying it has its guard up.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Save your fingers by keeping guard down and using push stick!, 1945 US poster: Industrial safety cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-your-fingers-push-stick-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-your-fingers-push-stick-1945.jpg)

# Save your fingers by keeping guard down and using push stick!

Industrial safety cartoon: a rectangular figure with a scowling face and a circular saw blade at its side, saying it has its guard up, faces a tall white figure holding up one hand, who says he will do the pushing. Text urges keeping the guard down and using a push stick. The technique is faint here: slangy speech and cartoon characters carry a plain safety instruction.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WATCH YOURSELF
BROTHER—I'VE
GOT MY GUARD
UP!
AW—PUT IT
DOWN I'LL DO
THE PUSHING
AROUND HERE
SAVE YOUR FINGERS
BY KEEPING GUARD DOWN AND
USING PUSH
STICK!
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—834865]
```

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