A charismatic ex-soldier, orator and propagandist, John A. Lee was a
dynamic figure in the Labour Party from the 1920s until 1940, when he
was expelled for attacking the leadership of M.J. Savage.
John A. Lee was a
dynamic figure in the Labour Party from the 1920s until 1940. But Lee had a
parallel career as a writer and later bookseller. His best-known novel,
the largely autobiographical Children of the poor (1934), was described
as a ‘sensational book on vice, poverty, misery'.
