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title: '"SHS država ne pozna dolžnosti, da bi za delavca skrbela!" (The SHS state knows no duty to look after the worker!), Carinthian plebiscite poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shs-drzava-ne-pozna-dolznosti-plebiscite-poster-1920/
description: A bearded worker in bare feet sits slumped with his head in his hands while a woman holding a hungry-looking child stands behind him, on a flat red field…
section: Collection
---

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[!["SHS država ne pozna dolžnosti, da bi za delavca skrbela!" (The SHS state knows no duty to look after the worker!), Carinthian plebiscite poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shs-drzava-ne-pozna-dolznosti-plebiscite-poster-1920.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/shs-drzava-ne-pozna-dolznosti-plebiscite-poster-1920.jpg)

# "SHS država ne pozna dolžnosti, da bi za delavca skrbela!" (The SHS state knows no duty to look after the worker!), Carinthian plebiscite poster

A bearded worker in bare feet sits slumped with his head in his hands while a woman holding a hungry-looking child stands behind him, on a flat red field above a line in Slovene saying the SHS state knows no duty to look after the worker. The tell is the staged household hardship attached to a rival state: poverty is the picture and the vote is the implied remedy, with no figure or comparison offered.

## Text on the object

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

```
SHS država ne pozna dolžnosti,
da bi za delavca skrbela!

[signature in the image at lower left: F. Stassen]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The SHS state knows no duty to look after the worker!
```

Read from the committed image. 'SHS' is the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Ozio - Miseria, Lavoro - Ricchezza (Idleness - Misery, Work - Wealth)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ozio-miseria-lavoro-ricchezza-prestito-1920/) [Свинья, дрессированная в Париже (The Pig Trained in Paris) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/svinia-dressirovannaya-v-parizhe-deni-1920/)

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