Show KEEP PLACES FOR GUARDS Manager Mason sof the Fairbanks Company Writes Governor as to Duty of Employers There is considerable difference or opinion among the employers In Salt Lake as to whether the places of employees em-ployees who have been called away from their work to go with the National Guard to loolc ufter the interests of the State should be kept for them on their return Many of the business houses have asked that their employes be released re-leased from service In the field and have threatened to discharge the boys If they do not return by a fixed date Other houses have in no way complained com-plained and some are said to have let the salaries of the employees go right on during their enforced absence As an indication of how one oC the employers em-ployers in the city feels upon the matter mat-ter the following letter received by Gov Wells is printed Salt Lake City Utah Dec G 1W3 lion Ilcber M 1 Wells City My Dear Governor notice in tho morning papers that some of tho business men of this city feel that it seems neccsunry to engage permanently per-manently the services of employees to take the places of the boys at the front belonging belong-ing to the National Guard It muy Interest Inter-est you to know that u young man employed em-ployed by this firm belongH to the National Guard and when leaving for duty ho was assured that his position was secure that on his return his place will bo open for him Jt seems to me that It is the duty oran or-an business men nt this time to pursure a similar course I I know of instances where some of tho ibO i-bO f who went to the Philippines from Utah after having been absent for a 1 long while on their return were reengaged In the Hume positions occupied at the time of their cnllstiiuiit We must all be patient nnd sustain you In thin movement and If this letter will aid you in Influencing others to do as we arc doing I shall be gratlllcd Yours very sincerely C P MASON Manager Fairbanks Morse Co |