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| NAME = Martin James Boon
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Martin J. Boon
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = British radical trade unionist
| DATE OF BIRTH = 15 April 1840
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Clerkenwell, London
| DATE OF DEATH = 1888
| PLACE OF DEATH = South Africa
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boon, Martin J}}
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[[Category:British trade unionists]]
[[Category:British trade unionists]]

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Martin James Boon (1840-1888) was a radical trade unionist.[1] In 1869 he participated in the establishment of the Land and Labour League of which he was a secretary until it ceased operation in 1873. Despite having penned a pamphlet opposing emigration,[2] he emigrated to South Africa, and wrote a further pamphlet on railway nationalisation as well as idiosyncratic histories of the Orange Free State[3] and South Africa.[4] The latter contained considerable fragments of a personal memoir and includes the only contemporary history of the Land and Labour League.[5]

Attended the General Council of the First International in 1871.[6]

References

  1. ^ Whitehead 1993, pp. 9–16.
  2. ^ Boon 1869.
  3. ^ Boon 1885a.
  4. ^ Boon 1885b.
  5. ^ Bowie 2014.
  6. ^ Documents of the First International. Lawrence & Wishart. 1872. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)