ABSTRACT
New Anglia and its metropolitan area, with a population of three quarters of a million, had about 150,000 persons at work in industry. Forty-four per cent of employment was in manufacturing, as against a national average of 25 per cent. Textiles were the city's number-one industry and also its number-one headache. New Anglia had a tradition of concern with tariffs and trade; it was a protectionist tradition. Protectionism was still the dominant view in New Anglia, though probably not that of the majority. The textile people were the only group of which the New Anglia congressmen had a clear image. Actually, New Anglia feeling was not strong, and the image the congressmen received of their constituencies was just as partial as the image they later derived from the cry for protection of the textile industry. New Anglia's interest was represented because an outsider cared enough to organize communications in and from New Anglia.
