James Joseph Mallon

James 'Jimmy' Joseph Mallon (born December 24, 1874 in Chorlton near Manchester ; April 12, 1961 ) was a British social reformer and political activist .

Life and activity

After attending school, Mallon first became an apprentice jeweler. At that time he joined the Shop Assistants' Union, on whose executive committee he sat for a year in 1905. He then studied at the Victoria University of Manchester.

In 1903 Mallon joined the Independent Labor Party . He also became a member of the Fabian Society .

In 1906 Mallon took over the post of secretary of the National League for the Implementation of a Minimum Wage (National League to Establish a Minimum Wage). In the same year he moved to London, where he started working at the Toynbee Hall Neighborhood and Settlement Center .

During the First World War , Mallon served as Commissioner for Industrial Unrest. After the war he became director of Tonybee Hall, a post he held for thirty-five years until 1954. He also wrote articles on economic topics for newspapers.

In the British general election of 1922 and 1923 Mallon ran in vain for a seat in the British Parliament.

At the end of the 1930s, Mallon was targeted by the police in Nazi Germany, who classified him as an important target: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered particularly dangerous or considered important, which is why, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, they should be located and arrested by special SS units following the occupation forces with special priority.

Fonts

• Industry and a Minimum Wage , 1950.

literature

• Asa Briggs: "Mallon, James Joseph (1874–1961)", in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Mallon on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .