Background
Maloney was born on 10 September 1911 in Minneapolis.
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Career
He participated in the Minneapolis general strike of 1934 as well as several others In 1940 he was jailed when during a strike by the North Central District Drivers Council a delivery van was destroyed. After sailing once to Russia in a convoy that suffered heavily casualties he moved to the west coast and sailed the pacific for many years and was active with the Sailors" Union of the Pacific until he was expelled over internal disagreements in 1949.
He joined the International Longshoremen"s and Warehousemen"s Union in 1953.
He was elected president of the local branch in 1970. He retired in 1976. He died on 19 December 1999.
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His mother and step father were politically active with Irish nationalism and the Industrial Workers of the World and he followed in their footsteps.
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December 19, 1999 (aged 88)