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I mention New England in connection with this proposal because I am most familiar with its position with respect to industrial concentration. New England is an industrial area primarily because it has the advantages necessary to the successful production of goods through manufacturing. It is an industrial area because its people are immigrants from other places in the world where industrial skills have been acquired and nurtured. I say immigrants not in any sense of meaning only those who have recently come to this country because the founders of New Englands industrial effort brought with them the skills they had acquired and which had been passed on to them from European nations. As an example. the brass industry in my own district will celebrate 150 years of continuous progress stemming from the efforts of English immigrants who foresaw the great need for the products of this process. It is ridiculous to assume that this historical background should be completely ignored and to think that merely through the legislative process we can transplant successful industrial effort to other areas of the country. The statement has been made that opposition to the amendment stems from chambers of commerce and other socalled pressure groups.