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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

This press release announced that the House Un-American Activities Committee would hold hearings on youth Communist activities. Mollie West would be called for these hearings because of her previous involvement with the Young Communist League.

United Auto Workers recruit union members outside the Curtiss Wright Corporation airplane plant in Buffalo, New York. Mollie West's first husband, Carl Lieber, helped start the Chicago chapter of UAW and is in the left side of this photo.

A portrait of Mollie Lieber West as a young woman.

A meeting of the Chicago Typographical Union in 1969. Mollie West appears on the left side of the photograph.

This announcement of the creation of the World Federation of Democratic Youth was released after the World Youth Conference in London in 1945. Mollie attended the Conference as a delegate of the United States.

This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having participated. Mollie West attended the trip,…

The first page of a Youth Lobby book. This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having…

Mollie West was a delegate for the CTU at the AFL-CIO convention many times. Her collection includes delegate medals from 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969.