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Martin J. Boon was a radical trade unionist. 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, he emigrated to South Africa, and wrote a further pamphlet on railway nationalisation as well as idiosyncratic histories of the Orange Free State and South Africa. The latter contained considerable fragments of a personal memoir and includes the only contemporary history of the Land and Labour League.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bowie, Duncan (2014). Our History: Roots of the British Socialist Movement. London: Socialist History Society. pp. 17–18. ISBN 9780955513893.
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