§ 22. Sir K. WOODasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can now state the result of his inquiries into the case of Isadore Dreazon; the various industrial disputes in which it has been ascertained that Dreazon intervened or which he fomented; and whether it has now been ascertained if he had any connection with the Third International?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Clynes)Dreazon left this country on the 22nd October last, and instructions have been given that he is not to be readmitted. He was sentenced on the 5th August last at Manchester to three months' imprisonment for being in unlawful possession of an irregular passport. I am informed that he was active in the unofficial dock strike in Salford in April last, and I understand that he also endeavoured unsuccessfully to promote other strikes in engineering works in the same neighbourhood. I have no positive evidence that he was an agent of the Communist International.
§ Sir K. WOODHas the right hon. Gentleman discovered who this man really was, and what was his right name?
§ Mr. CLYNESI have given all the information that I have.
§ Colonel HOWARD-BURYWas this man a member of the Labour party?