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title: 'To Everyone in This Plant: Our Country Is Depending on You'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-everyone-in-this-plant-1918/
description: A shipyard scene with cranes and workers sits beside a shield of stars and stripes above a block of text addressed to everyone in a government-work plant.
section: Collection
---

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[![To Everyone in This Plant: Our Country Is Depending on You, 1918 US poster: A shipyard scene with cranes and workers sits](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/to-everyone-in-this-plant-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/to-everyone-in-this-plant-1918.jpg)

# To Everyone in This Plant: Our Country Is Depending on You

A shipyard scene with cranes and workers sits beside a shield of stars and stripes above a block of text addressed to everyone in a government-work plant. The wording frames each worker as owing the United States a duty and ends with a direct appeal, 'Our country is depending on you.'

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TO EVERYONE
IN THIS PLANT:
THIS PLANT IS ENGAGED
UPON GOVERNMENT WORK
EVERY PERSON HERE OWES
THE UNITED STATES
A DUTY TO DO HIS UTMOST
TO MAKE MATERIAL FOR
OUR SHIPS CAREFULLY
AND SPEEDILY . . . .
LET THIS BE YOUR PART
OUR COUNTRY IS
DEPENDING ON YOU
EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION
ISSUED BY PUBLICATIONS SECTION, EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA
[printer line under the picture, small: THOMSEN-ELLIS CO. BALTIMORE NEW YORK]
[artist's signature at upper right of the picture, small: partly legible]
```

The letter S is styled like a dollar sign throughout the lettering and is transcribed as S. The printer line and the artist's signature in the picture are very small and read with some uncertainty.

[← Tired of Giving? We Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tired-of-giving-liberty-bonds-1918/) [To Make the World a Decent Place to Live In. Do Your Part, Buy U.S. Government Bonds. Third Liberty Loan →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-make-the-world-a-decent-place-third-liberty-loan-1918/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [A Little American's Promise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-little-americans-promise-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Transfer)
- [All Together! Enlist in the Navy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/all-together-enlist-in-the-navy-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Bandwagon, Identity fusion)
- [Members of U.S. Food Administration: America Has Promised to Feed the Hungry Millions of Europe, Waste Nothing](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/america-food-pledge-20-million-tons-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion)
- [Do Your Duty. Join the U.S. Marines. Help Them Defend America on Land and Sea](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/do-your-duty-join-the-us-marines-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Glittering generalities, Identity fusion)
- [50-50 (The Job of Beating Up the Hun)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fifty-fifty-service-series-11-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Name-calling, Identity fusion)
- [Food Will Win the War: Member of United States Food Administration (Pledge Card)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-will-win-the-war-member-pledge-card-1917-1919/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Bandwagon)
- [Hit the Bull's Eye! Are You on This List? Get Your Name in the Circle: It's the Ring of Liberty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hit-the-bulls-eye-ring-of-liberty-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Bandwagon, Identity fusion)
- [I Am a Soldier of the United States (Service Series No. 12)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-am-a-soldier-of-the-united-states-service-series-no-12-1917/) (United States · 1917 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities)