THE OTHER SIDE

Southland Times, Issue 20045, 6 December 1926, Page 7

THE OTHER SIDE

SLUM LIFE IN BRITAIN. ‘YARMOUTH BLOATER” LABOURITES. London, December 3. Mr Saklatvala, the Communist member of the House of Commons, is writing to all the dominion Premiers calling 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 homes in which mothers are giving birth to babies surrounded in the same room, even in the same bed, by other grown-up and half-hungry, workless children. These are to a large extent to be your population in the future for, pick carefully as you may, these will form 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 Y'armouth bloater character of some British Labour representatives has been placed before you as an index of general contentment among the working class, so you evidently are departing with a safe market in your pocket and dream of a strong, well-developed, conser-vatively-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 the calculations of the profit of some imaginary trade.”—A. & N.Z.