Show CALL GALL BILL GETS FAVOR The house military affairs committee commit commit- tee tec will report favorably house bill 9 0 forbidding the governor to call out i the national guard in case of labor disputes it was announced after alter a 8 committee meeting Frida Friday The action was taken despite an assertIon b by Brigadier General W. W G. G Williams adjutant general of or Utah called in to 10 advise the committee t that hat he believed oo the bill unconstitutional t ional because the governor go already i is s the commander in chief chic of ot state armed a forces except when they arc c called for federal service Explains Motive Representative Paul Paal M. M Peterson D. D Summit author of ot the bill said its i ts purpose was to lo make calling on f federal troops the next resource incase Inase in incase c case ase local officers cannot enforce en tn f force torce orce law and order The present law Representative Peterson said Mid prevents the governor from f rom calling on federal troops before belore all state resources including the national na na- na t ional guard have been exhausted Enforcement of ot law and order b by national guardsmen should not be a burden on taxpayers he said I believe guardsmen usually are inexperienced inexperienced inex inex- and that officers and guardsmen not are friendly to labor H He charged the guard has been used to protect strikebreakers and break strikes Williams Replies Ge General eral Williams replying to lo Representative Rep- Rep Petersons Peterson's reference to lo In inexperience rl nce said sad if It the national nal guard is good enough for the United States to lo use against the best troops i in n the world isn't it good enough for tor an any purpose in the state stale The dut duty of or the guard in such cases enforcing law and order is identical to that thai of federal troops he said id In all my experience I have never known a man to be killed or even injured by a Utah Ulah guards man Representative Bent R. R Bryan D. D Juab said aid he did not favor calling pon upon federal troops before exhausting exhaust exhaust- S ing ng all state slate resources and declared he would submits minority report I Representative Evin Jones D. D Emer Emery committee member said he had been beaten by guardsmen in labor disputes |