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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. government (issuer not printed; Government Printing Office imprint)
- 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)
U.S. government (issuer not printed. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1680 (NAID 515348).
Text on the object
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]
