THOMAS M. MOLLOY..
 


	Throughout western Canada, Thomas M. Molloy, Commissioner of
Labor and Industries for Saskatchewan, is known as a man who is de-
voting his life to the solution of the problems of labor and, industry that
have vexed the economic world in recent decades. He was born in Nova
Scotia, on the 13th of September, 1882, son of Richard Joseph and Mar-
garet (Lockman) Molloy, both natives of Nova Scotia. In the summer
of 1884 the family came west to join the father, who had come out earlier
in that year. He was assistant superintendent of the government tele-
graph service stationed at Clark's Crossing, where he conducted a relay
station.  Subsequently he went to work for the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road as operator at Saskatoon.  In later years the family moved to
Qu'Appelle and thence to Brandon, Manitoba, where the father died in
1901. At the time of his death he was the owner of a tent and manufac-
turing plant at Brandon. Six of the eight children born into the Molloy
family are living. One son, Edward, was called upon to make the su-
preme sacrifice in the Great war. Entering the military service in 1915
as a sergeant in the Marine Corps, he was stationed on the battleship
Newcastle, and was killed in the Dardanelles in 1916. The children were
reared in the Roman Catholic faith, the parents being active members of
that church. The father was a Conservative in his political views.
	Thomas M. Molloy was the fourth child in the family. He was edu-
cated in the common schools of Brandon and had completed the eighth
grade when he left school, at the age of thirteen, to go to work. His
first employment was on a farm. Later he entered a printing office to
learn the trade and when his apprenticeship was finished he plied his
trade until 1905, when he joined the staff of the Winnipeg Free Press
as a reporter. Five years later he came to Regina to work for The West,
a paper then published in this province. He began his work for the gov-
ernment in 1909, when he was called upon to help settle some strikes
that were tying up the work on a number of public buildings in the course
of erection. At that time he had already attracted considerable notice
by his work in connection with the Trades and Labor Council, which he
had helped to organize and had headed as president, and was known for
his able work on various labor boards.  The year after he had been
called in to help adjust the difficulties in the building situation, Mr. Mol-
by accepted a permanent position with the government and is now Com-
missioner of Labor and Industries.  He has made a thorough and ex-
haustive study of labor and industrial conditions in Canada and else-
where and is regarded as an authority on this subject. The results that
have been obtained in the dozen or more years that Mr. Molloy has been
engaged in this work have been gratifying to the government, the public
and organized labor and point the way to further adjustments to the
new economic order.
	Mr. Molloy was united in marriage to Miss Elsie Margaret Fennell
in 1910. The daughter of Hugh Fennell, Mrs. Molloy was born and edu-
cated in Ontario. She was engaged in the nursing profession before her
marriage, having taken her training and graduated from the Regina
General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Molloy are the parents of five children:
Mary, James, George and Alfred, who are in school; and Jack, a little
fellow of four.
	As Roman Catholics, Mr. Molloy and his wife both take an active part
in the work of their parish. Mr. Molloy is a member of the Knights of
Columbus and has held all the offices in the local council.  For recrea-
tion he turns to the popular game of golf, which he plays at the Regina
Golf Club. Mr. Molloy's work is to him both a business and a pleasure,
for he rightly feels that he is contributing to the development of his
province and, moreover, to the solution of problems that are of national
and even world-wide interest.  He is still a young man with a young
man's enthusiasm, and his many friends predict for him a future as full
of promise as the past has been of accomplishment.



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