---
title: '"Right between the eyes!!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-right-between-the-eyes-1943/
description: A pencil cartoon shows a small figure labelled 'War Labor Board' slinging a stone tagged 'Equal pay for equal work' into the face of a club-carrying giant
section: Collection
---

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[!["Right between the eyes!!", 1943 US cartoon: A pencil cartoon shows a small figure labelled 'War Labor Board' slinging](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-right-between-the-eyes-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-right-between-the-eyes-1943.jpg)

# "Right between the eyes!!"

A pencil cartoon shows a small figure labelled 'War Labor Board' slinging a stone tagged 'Equal pay for equal work' into the face of a club-carrying giant whose back reads 'Wage differentials based on race'. The tell is a slogan-as-weapon framing in the David-and-Goliath mould, with a virtue phrase ('equal pay') set against a personified opponent.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
EQUAL PAY
FOR
EQUAL WORK

WAGE
DIFFERENTIALS
BASED ON
RACE

WAR LABOR
BOARD

Alston
OWI

"RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES!!"
```

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