Originate Propose Assist: Employee Suggestion Plan
Three-panel cartoon sheet headed Originate, Propose, Assist: a man leaps with a light bulb, a man at a desk writes up the idea, and four colleagues gather round a table with a slip marked IDEA. The everyday office figures and light tone are the plain-folks technique, faint here; the sheet is a workplace notice and makes no war claim.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Employee Suggestion Branch, issuing agency not named
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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)
Employee Suggestion Branch, issuing agency not named. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1474 (NAID 515139).
Text on the object
ORIGINATE PROPOSE ASSIST GET A GOOD IDEA ABOUT IMPROVING PROCEDURES, FORMS, QUALITY OF WORK--ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WRITE UP THE IDEA AND SUBMIT IT TO THE EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION BRANCH RM. 4209 - F.O.B. 1 HELP THE AGENCY MAKE THE MOST EFFECTIVE USE OF MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT AND MAN-EFFORT. EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION PLA[N] [IDEA, on the slip held in the right-hand panel]
