Labor Day 1942
A white and a Black worker together carry a shield reading 'Free Labor Will Win' toward a dark tower labelled 'Axis', with factory smokestacks behind them. The tell is a slogan-and-symbol frame: shared labour is cast as the answer to an Axis threat, with the integrated pair as the visual message.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- 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 (NARA), RG 208, Cartoons Promoting the War Effort (NAID 535594), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-141 (NAID 535654).
Text on the object
LABOR DAY ★ 1942 FREE LABOR WILL WIN AXIS 36 2/3 picas
