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title: Honorable Discharge. Victory. We Don't Put Down Our Tools Till Quitting Time
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-dont-put-down-our-tools-till-quitting-time-1917/
description: A soldier in campaign hat with a rifle on his shoulder stands beside a clock whose face is labelled 'Honorable Discharge' at the top and 'Victory'
section: Collection
---

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[![Honorable Discharge. Victory. We Don't Put Down Our Tools Till Quitting Time, 1917 US poster: A soldier in campaign hat](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-dont-put-down-our-tools-till-quitting-time-1917.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-dont-put-down-our-tools-till-quitting-time-1917.jpg)

# Honorable Discharge. Victory. We Don't Put Down Our Tools Till Quitting Time

A soldier in campaign hat with a rifle on his shoulder stands beside a clock whose face is labelled 'Honorable Discharge' at the top and 'Victory' at the bottom, under the line 'We don't put down our tools till quitting time.' The 'we' joins civilians to the soldier, and the clock turns the war into a working day that ends only with victory, the tell of bandwagon pressure to keep working.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HONORABLE
DISCHARGE
VICTORY

We don't put down
our tools
till quitting time.
```

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