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The TWA was not originally registered as a legal entity when it was founded in 1897, but in 1906 it was registered both under the Friendly Societies Ordinance and the Companies Ordinance since this was a requirement for all Friendly Societies and similar bodies such as the TWA. The Companies Ordinance regulated banking institutions, but it included under its purview organizations such as the TWA and other provident or benefit societies which were categorized as “Associations not for Profit.”1
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Hansard 18 June 1932. The Bill was originally founded on the law of the British Parliament and drew upon the Trade Union Acts of 1871 and 1876. The Trade Union Act of 1871 gave legal status to trade unions; it enabled unions to protect their funds by registering under the Friendly Society Act. There were restrictions since another ordinance, the Criminal Law Amendment Act (1871) prohibited any form of picketing. Subsequently, the Act of 1876 provided legal protection in the case of picketing and worker demonstrations. H.A. Clegg, A. Fox and A.F. Thompson, eds., A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889 vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) 46.
John M. Hackshaw, One Hundred Years of Trade Unionism (Diego Martin: Citadel Publishing, 1997) 20.
Bernard S. Tappin, “Pope versus the King — The Divorce Controversy in Trinidad in 1931,” Antilia 3 (1987): 31.
Secret Despatch from Fletcher to Ormsby-Gore, 24 October 1937. Confidential Despatches from the Governor to the Secretary of Statel937. National Archives, Trinidad. Also Kelvin Singh, “The June 1937 Disturbances in Trinidad,” The Trinidad Labour Riots of193?’-Perspectives 50 Years Later, ed. Roy Thomas (St Augustine: Extra Mural Studies, 1987) 70. Singh, Race and Class 170. Singh, “Rienzi and the Labour Movement” 14.
Rawle Farley, The Caribbean Trade Unionist (British Guiana: Daily Chronicle, 1957) 14.
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Teelucksingh, J. (2015). Rise of the Trinidad Labour Party. 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_6
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