1 Date began Tue, 01/01/1935 - 12:00 Precise date began unknown Y 2 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) 3 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) 4 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