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Show States Take Up Defense Plans Most of Them Have Acted To Provide for Home Guard Units. NEW YORK. A majority of states already have taken precautions precau-tions to protect their populations and vital industries against sabotage, sabo-tage, espionage and shortages of skilled manpower, a survey of the 48 states revealed. Legislatures of 29 states have established es-tablished or planned home guard organizations or-ganizations replacing National Guard units called to service with the regular reg-ular army; 13 have enacted, or have pending, bills providing for rigid anti-sabotage restrictions; 11 have passed bills, aimed at saboteurs, restricting re-stricting use of explosives; and at least 15, acting in collaboration with the federal government and local authorities, have organized special training clrsses for defense workers. work-ers. Women Included. Women, too, have been included in the states' defense plans. One hundred volunteer women are on call in Massachusetts to assist as air raid "spotters-' as they did re-cently re-cently when the entire northeast conducted aerial warfare games. No bills have been passed outlawing out-lawing strikes in defense industries but Michigan, Georgia, Texas and j Oklahoma have strengthened legislation legis-lation to curb such strikes. All of the states have set up defense de-fense councils to co-ordinate activities activi-ties with sectional and federal organizations. or-ganizations. On recommendation of these councils at least 30 states have passed or are considering bills which would: Authorize slum clearance projects to provide safe and sanitary housing hous-ing facilities for workers engaged in defense industries (Iowa, North Dakota Da-kota and Tennessee); protect tax. exemption rights of citizens called into the armed forces (Iowa) ; strengthen a criminal anarchy law to include radio speeches and pamphlets pam-phlets (Washington); curb Nazi, Fascist, Communist and other sub-j versive activities (Arkansas, Ne-( braska and Washington), and provide pro-vide for supervision of zoning regu-j lations around defense industry-plants. industry-plants. Provide for Home Guard. States with new home guards are Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Illi-nois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina, Caro-lina, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Texas, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia. Wisconsin, Wyoming and Nebraska. States which have enacted or have pending anti-sabotage legislation are Iowa, Washington, Ohio, Connecticut, Con-necticut, Nebraska, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Those with new legislation on control of explosives are Iowa, Rhode Island, Ohio, Georgia, Geor-gia, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Vermont and Washington. |
