It is not a question of keeping the balance of population, it is a question of whether it is possible to pour the contents of a bucket into a pint pot, and I am afraid that if this great inrush of immigrants, which is desired by many people in this country, who do not know the facts, takes place, we shall get a Crisis in the Future Which at the moment is not conceived.

That background was a national Crisis in Which the Whole Future of the dockers and everybody else in this country was at stake.