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Show TELEPH0;i COMPANY OPPOSES UifORI'IS FOR EliPLOYEES The Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph; oompany, In a communication to City Recorder Ben 8. Rlrea this morning, presents Ita side of tha case. In the discussion as to whether It would be advisable to have all employees of public service corporations, or of vsrious departments depart-ments of the city government, whose duties call them Into the homes of cltl-aena. cltl-aena. wear uniforms tlon of the company In a notice sent to C. V. Heelye, general manager of the Utah division of the company, of s resolution reso-lution passed hy the city council. The aim of the supporters of the resolution waa to prevent aneak thlevea from hav. Ing any excuse to enter s private home or place of buelneas, or Intending bur-glare bur-glare from learning the plan of the Interior In-terior of a house that they might use la future visits. Mr. Seelye thinks the al mof the resolution reso-lution -s praiseworthy one. but demurs 10 ine mea tnat a unirorm is tne best solution of the difficulty. Ha points out that a discharged employee still might wear hla uniform, and thus gain admittance admit-tance to a place where he had no right. He points to the fact that every employee of the telephone company carries with him a card of Identification, which la always al-ways for the current month. He asks that each householder never admit any employee of the telephone company without with-out flrat making the latter show his card, and that they determine that this card shows the holder to be at present an employee em-ployee of the telephone oompany. |