In that they have the advantage of me because I cannot find anything in the document to indicate what was the Crisis in December of 1931.

If there was, indeed, a Crisis in the December of 1931 which occasioned the matter attributed to it here, then either the matter should not be mentioned at all or, if it is, it should be stated with the utmost clarity what was the crisis to which the document refers.

Whether we refer to the Crisis of December, 1964, or that of June, 1965, or that of July, 1966, it has always been the high salary earner who has caught it in the neck.

When the shortage reached a Crisis in December 1943, the then Minister for Labour and National Service, Ernest Bevin, decided that a certain percentage of draftees would be directed into the pits to make up the manpower shortage.