LORD RITCHIE-CALDER: … On another occasion, a crowd of unemployed workers was standing on the edge of a cutting at Park Royal—the underground was pushing out to Osterley—and they were watching a huge muck-shifter scooping up tons of rubble at a bite. One unemployed man said bitterly, "If it were not for that damn machine there would be hundreds of jobs for men with picks and shovels." "Yes, mate," said another unemployed man, "or for millions of men with tea spoons".