BRITISH HOMES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 11

BRITISH HOMES

“THOUSANDS CONGESTED AND INSANITARY” COMMUNIST M.P. WRITES TO DOMINION PREMIERS DRAWING ATTENTION TO REAL PROBLEMS OF LIFE BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. Copyright. London, December 3. The Communist member for Battersea (Mr. S. Saklatvala) lias written to all the Dominion Premiers drawing attention to what he calls “most important human problems and certain political problems.” He says: “Probably you were not invited to inspect thousands upon thousands of congested insanitary British homes wherein mothers giving birth to babies are surrounded in the same room, even in the same bed, with other grown-up, half-hungry, workltss children. These arc to a large extent to be your population of ' the future, for, pick carefully as you may, these will be the majority of the British people of the next generation. “The fussy nature of some of Mr. Baldwin’s Cabinet Ministers has just been presented to you as strength and the Yarmouth bloater character of some of the British Labour representatives has been placed before you as an index of the general contentment of the working class, so you are evidently departing with a safe market in your pocket, and a dream of a strong, well-developed Conservatively disciplined stream of emigrants, whenever you whistle for them. My bounden duly is to draw the attention of von colonials to the real problems of life which you ought to have studied with greater care than the calculations of the profits of some imaginary trade.”