This proposal had not come upon the House at any slight Crisis in Our National Life.

I say to the House that it may well be that although this is a grave Crisis in Our National Life, that although our industrial economy is imperilled, it may prove to be a blessing in disguise because it will focus the attention of all the people in this country on our vulnerability - not the vulnerability of the Government, but the vulnerability of this country - unless we can promote in the mining industry the atmosphere that will bring in willing men to produce the coal.