Colonial Seamen's Association

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Date began: 
01 Jan 1935
Precise date began unknown: 
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About: 

The Colonial Seamen's Association (CSA) was founded in 1935 to galvanize support against the 1935 British Assistance Act, which discriminated against non-British seamen. The organization's Secretary was Surat Alley. The CSA held its first annual convention in 1936 and remained active throught the latter half of the 1930s.

Key individuals: 
Surat Alley
Key Individuals' Details: 

Surat Alley (Secretary)

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Secondary works: 

Tabili, Laura, 'We ask for British Justice': Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994)

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto, 2002)

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Archive source: 

L/PJ/12/373, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

L/PJ/12/630, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras