POVERTY IN ENGLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 December 1926, Page 5

POVERTY IN ENGLAND.

A PITIFUL PICTURE. IMPORTANT HUMAN PROBLEM. Press Association-Electric Telecrapli-Copyright (Received Saturday, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Mr S. Saklatvala (the Communist M.P.) is writing to all the Dominion Premiers, calling attention to what he calls “the most important of human, problems and certain political problems.!’ ■; . lie says: “Probably you were not invited to inspect the thousands upon thousands of congested and insanitary British 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 ns! 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 an. untruth, and the Yarmouth bloater, character of some of the British Labour representatives: placed; bofdre voir as fin index of tlib-’geii.-eral, contentment among the working class, so you. are evidently departing with a safe market in the l po.cket anej. a dream of a strong, well-developed, con-, scrvatlvely-disciplincd stream of emigrants whenever you whistle for them. It is my boundeii 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 calculation of the profits of some imaginary trade.’’ _