Labour Australia

Patrick John (Paddy) Malone (c.1904-1970) trade union official

Birth: 7 March 1904, Derrycrin, Tyrone, Ireland. Partners: Doris Helena Banfield and Kathleen Mary O'Sullivan. He had no children.  Death: 14 October 1970, Melbourne.

• State Secretary, Victorian Builders Labourers’ Federation, 1941-c.1970; Member, Federal Council for similar period;
• Member, Communist Party of Australia (CPA), c.1941–1963; Member, Central Committee CPA, c.1956-1963; Resigned from CPA for helping establish and lead CPA (Marxist-Leninist), which claimed allegiance with China in contrast to Russia’s policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, 1963 and caused schism within the CPA;
• Secretary, ALP Nagombie branch for 30 years.

John Playford, Doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, 1945-1962, PhD thesis, ANU, 1962, p.426; Merrifield Card Index; Herald (Melbourne), 13? Jun. 1963, 3 Sept. 1964; Sun (Melbourne), 28 Mar. 1964?, 15 Oct. 1970; Age, 15 Oct. 1970 p.4