Content note: Wartime cartoon caricatures of Hitler and a Japanese leader drawn with exaggerated features (buck teeth, round glasses), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Squeeze-Play! Extra effort now brings victory nearer
Production-drive cartoon poster: a fist labelled 'American Worker' turns a vise handle, a vise labelled 'U.S. Production Front' clamping two cartoon figures drawn after Hitler and Tojo, who sweat, gape and lose a cap. The enemy leaders are drawn as ridiculed, caricatured figures (name-calling), and the worker is given the controlling hand.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist signed Packer)
- 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
- War and the military, Labor, Home front
- 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, Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1794 (NAID 515472).
Text on the object
SQUEEZE-PLAY! AMERICAN WORKER U.S. PRODUCTION FRONT EXTRA EFFORT NOW... BRINGS VICTORY NEARER [signature: Packer] [imprint: PRINTED IN U.S.A.] [imprint: Copyright, "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc., NEW YORK] [imprint: D-168]
