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Police officers charge into a crowd of supporters of the Little Steel Strike in front of the the Republic Steel plant in Chicago on May 30, 1937.

Women represent the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in a strike at the Chicago Tribune.

Mollie West represents her local union, Local 16, as an elected delegate at the 1976 ITU Convention.

Travel documents from Mollie's Trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-1946. While in Europe as a delegate to the United States at international youth conventions, Mollie and other members of the American Youth for Democracy (previously Young Communist…

Travel documents from Mollie's Trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-1946. While in Europe as a delegate to the United States at international youth conventions, Mollie and other members of the American Youth for Democracy (previously Young Communist…

Mollie West holds a bag of newspapers by her computer at the office of the Illinois Labor History Society, where she served as volunteer secretary for many years.

This is a notebook Mollie bought and used on her trip to the Soviet Union with a youth delegation. On the back cover, she noted some useful Russian phrases.

This phone script was used by Chicago Typographical Union members during a strike at Total Typography to alert the company's customers to the treatment of workers and to request that they support the strike.

Mollie West received this subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee, commanding her to appear before the committee regarding her involvement in the Communist Party. Mollie was ill at the time, and her appointment