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The TWA, though not a fully organized political party, contributed significantly to the process which led to these first elections and the attainment of limited representative government for the Colony For at least two decades, the Association maintained dialogue with officials of the local government and the Colonial Office on the need for self-government. To this was added daring criticism of colonial rule in the island. The close relationship and support of the British Labour Party (BLP) certainly provided confidence to the Association in its demand for constitutional reform.
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Patrick Emmanuel, Crown Colony Politics in Grenada 1917–1951 (Bridgetown: ISER, 1978) 72.
Morley Ayearst, The British West Indies (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960) 80.
Labour Leader 17 January 1925. For a brief overview of the elections in the 1920s and 1930s see Kirk Meighoo, Politics in a ‘Half-Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago, 1925–2001 (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003) 10–13.
Cited in Gordon Rohlehr, Calypso and Politics in Pre-Independence Trinidad (Port-of-Spain: Gordon Rohlehr, 1990) 107 (Bassabassa is a local expression for ‘confusion’).
Brinsley Samaroo, John La Guerre and George Sammy, East Indians and the Present Crisis (San Juan: Print-Rite, 1973) 2.
TG 8 January 1933. For more on Madeleine Slade, see Louis Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (New York: New American Library, 1964) 91–92.
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Teelucksingh, J. (2015). Involvement of Labour in Politics, 1925–1938. In: Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462336_4
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