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title: If I were running this business
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-i-were-running-this-business-asf-1945/
description: 'Workplace suggestion-program sheet: a shirt-sleeved worker leans on a desk and points at a seated man in a jacket.'
section: Collection
---

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[![If I were running this business, 1945 US poster: Workplace suggestion-program sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-i-were-running-this-business-asf-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-i-were-running-this-business-asf-1945.jpg)

# If I were running this business

Workplace suggestion-program sheet: a shirt-sleeved worker leans on a desk and points at a seated man in a jacket, under the line 'if I were running this business'. Text says to have the speaker put the remark on a suggestion blank. The technique is plain-folks, the shop-floor critic as a source of ideas.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
if I were running this business
WHEN YOU HEAR THAT REMARK
HAVE THE SPEAKER TELL US
ON A SUGGESTION BLANK . . .
HE MAY HAVE A GOOD IDEA!
DISTRIBUTION: For each 50 civilian employees of ASF (1); Installations and offices with less than 50 civilian employees of ASF (1).
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945--O--628691
ASF Suggestion Poster No. 7.
```

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