Shaun Maloney Papers 1932-2000 1946-1998

Maloney, Shaun, 1911-1999

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Shaun Maloney, also known as Jack Maloney, was a fiery union activist and advocate for workers' rights whose involvement in the labor movement spanned eight decades. Shaun McGillin Maloney was born on Sept. 10, 1911, in Minneapolis. His natural father deserted the family before Maloney's birth. As a youth he was known as John or Jack Severson, adopting the name of his stepfather. He reverted to using Maloney in about 1936 when he was issued a social security card. He w...

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 37 (Seattle, Wash.)

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Severson, Donald E.

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Almeida, Arthur A.

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Murray, Bob

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Dobbs, Farrell

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International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union

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In the years following World War II, rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen's Association became increasingly restive as a result of dissatisfaction with union contracts. Finally, in the fall of 1951, a series of unauthorized strikes was climaxed by a twenty-one day wildcat strike in the Port of New York. The strikers included several high-ranking ILA officials and a future president, Thomas Gleason. The strike ended when a board of inquiry to investigate the strike...

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters was formed in 1903 from the merger of two teamsters unions to form one large union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. One of the largest and most powerful unions in the country, the Teamsters have been notoriously plagued by corrupt leadership throughout its history. In December 1957, the AFL-CIO ejected the Teamsters from the federation for non-compliance with newly enacted corruption rules. In 1964, Teamsters' president James Hoffa succ...

Riehle, Dave

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Mahoney, John A.

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Sailors' Union of the Pacific. Mahoney Defense Committee.

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Lovell, Frank

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Frank Lovell was born on July 24, 1913, in Ipava, Illinois. Drawn into the socialist movement after the San Francisco general strike, he joined the Workers Party of the United States in 1935. He became a seaman and an organizer for the Sailor's Union of the Pacific. In 1938 Lovell was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), and over the next five decades served on national leadership and wrote extensively for its publications on labor issues and other matters. Under the pen name ...

Harer, Asher

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Union activist. From the description of Asher Harer papers, 1933-1998. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 62791952 ...

Wirth, John

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Ransome, John T.

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Sailors' Union of the Pacific

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Miller, Louis A.

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Weinreich, Dorothy

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