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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Department, Army Service Forces (ASF Suggestion Poster No. 7)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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)
War Department, Army Service Forces. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1052 (NAID 514576).
Text on the object
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.
