"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.

Date

1920

Period

Interwar

Made by

Austrian side of the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite campaign, Slovene-language poster (no sponsor printed; the library catalogues it as Austrian propaganda)

Region

Western and Central Europe

Country

Austria

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

Mixed

Regime

First Austrian Republic

Leader

Michael Mayr

Audience

Diaspora or minority

Purpose

Persuade or win support

Themes

Elections and party politics, Labor, Race and ethnicity

Event

Carinthian Plebiscite

Techniques

Fear appeal

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, Ravne na Koroškem (dLib.si, National and University Library, Ljubljana), via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026

Rights

Public domain (published 1920, before 1931); Commons PD-Yugoslavia tag on the file; dLib lists free access
SHS država ne pozna dolžnosti, da bi za delavca skrbela!, plebiscite poster, 1920. Koroška osrednja knjižnica dr. Franca Sušnika, Ravne na Koroškem, via dLib.si (URN:NBN:SI:IMG-CKMOPSV2).

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

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

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