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title: '"High Sign" for victory! Boost your payroll savings'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/high-sign-for-victory-payroll-savings-1944/
description: 'Treasury poster: a railroad worker leaning from a car holds up a lantern in the dark, headline ''"High Sign" for victory!''.'
section: Collection
---

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[!["High Sign" for victory! Boost your payroll savings, 1944 US poster: Treasury poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/high-sign-for-victory-payroll-savings-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/high-sign-for-victory-payroll-savings-1944.jpg)

# "High Sign" for victory! Boost your payroll savings

Treasury poster: a railroad worker leaning from a car holds up a lantern in the dark, headline '"High Sign" for victory!', with 'Boost your payroll savings' and a 'Buy War Bonds' shield. The tell is the working man's signal gesture used to link a wage deduction to victory.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
"High Sign"
for Victory!
BOOST your
PAYROLL SAVINGS
BUY
WAR
BONDS
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-572593
OFFICIAL U. S. TREASURY POSTER
WFD 886
```

[← "Here's how" to keep vehicles off the deadline on the firing line](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heres-how-vehicles-off-the-deadline-1944/) [His war is over.. Yours isn't! Buy extra bonds, 6th War Loan →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/his-war-is-over-yours-isnt-6th-war-loan-1944/)

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