BRITISH CONDITIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19503, 6 December 1926, Page 11

BRITISH CONDITIONS.

COMMUNIST'S PESSJMISM. LETTERS TO THE PREMIERS. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dee. 3. The Communist M.P. for Battersea North, Mr. S. Saklatvala, has written to all the Dominion Prime Ministers calling their attention to what he calls most important human problems and certain political problems. The writer says: •' Probably you were not invited to inspect the thousands upon thousands of congested and insanitary homes in .Britain in which mothers are giving birth to babies surrounded in the same room, even in the same bed, by other grown-up people and half-hungry and Workless children. " These children are, to a large extent, to be the population of your Dominions in future, for, pick as carefully as you may, they will comprise the majority of the British people' of the next generation. " The fussy nature of some of £he members of Mr. Baldwin's Cabinet has just been presented to. you as strength, and the Yarmouth bloater-like character of eome of the British Labour repre, sentatives has been placed before you as an index to the general contentment of the working classes So you are evidently departing with a safe market in your pocket and a dream of a strong, welldeveloped, Conservatively disciplined stream of emigrants whenever you whistle for them. "It is my bounden duty to draw the attention of you Colonials to the real problems of life, which you ought to have studied with greater care than you devote to calculations of the profits of some imaginary trade."