Yank them out!
Workplace safety poster: a pair of pincers reaches down toward a board studded with bent nails whose heads spell 'Yank', over the words 'Them Out!'. The technique is faint: the bare points sticking through the board imply an injury, a mild fear-appeal for workers to pull protruding nails.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards (reproduced by permission of the British Ministry of Labour and National Service)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health
- 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)
U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1697 (NAID 515368).
Text on the object
Yank THEM OUT! Reproduced by the United States Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards, Washington, D. C. By Permission of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, London [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, remainder illegible] [handwritten: 44-PA-1697]
