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title: Future U.S. progress depends on our keeping alive the American system of free workers and free enterprise
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/future-us-progress-depends-on-free-enterprise-1941/
description: Stylised city of towers, a park with a flag and a busy road under red sky, with a text asserting that U.S. progress depends on 'free workers and free
section: Collection
---

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[![Future U.S. progress depends on our keeping alive the American system of free workers and free enterprise, 1941 US poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/future-us-progress-depends-on-free-enterprise-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/future-us-progress-depends-on-free-enterprise-1941.jpg)

# Future U.S. progress depends on our keeping alive the American system of free workers and free enterprise

Stylised city of towers, a park with a flag and a busy road under red sky, with a text asserting that U.S. progress depends on 'free workers and free enterprise pulling together for the good of all'. The tell is glittering generalities: broad positive terms ('free', 'good of all') with no specific measure or request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Future
U.S. progress
depends on our
keeping alive the
American system of
free workers and
free enterprise—
pulling together
for the good of all.

[signature:] C X R
MILLER
[imprint:] THINK AMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. [illegible]
[imprint:] COPYRIGHT — KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.
```

Part of the imprint line is faint.

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