 Although not one of the five original members of the National Woman's Committee, Maley was named to the committee in 1909, when she succeeded Akron attorney Marguerite Prevey as chairwoman.Maley was regarded by her peers as a talented and effective public speaker and she spent extensive time in Los Angeles in 1911 speaking on behalf of the Mayoral campaign of Job Harriman in that year.In September 1911, Maley made her way to the Pacific Northwestern region of the United States to take over as editor of the Socialist newspaper "The Commonwealth," based in the mill town of Everett, Washington.