Scram! Give 'em the boot!
Cartoon poster: a giant boot marked 'U.S. Workers' kicks three figures, tagged 'Spoilage', 'Carelessness' and 'Waste', away from a factory skyline. The tell is labelling: abstract faults are drawn as ridiculed jester and farmhand caricatures so that the viewer rejects them as people.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York (artist signature reads Pacher, uncertain)
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc., New York. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1687 (NAID 515358).
Text on the object
SCRAM! SPOILAGE CARELESSNESS WASTE U.S. WORKERS GIVE 'EM THE BOOT! [signature: Pacher (reading uncertain)] [imprint: PRINTED IN U.S.A.] [imprint: Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK]
