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Show MOTHER BIB JOLT fOR IHE'IRUSI" Auother stuffed club, which will bo shied at th0 head of the alleged al-leged combine of Ogaen grocers nnd butchers, Is being propared In the form of a protest against that section of tho city ordinances requiring street vendors of vegetables and other produce pro-duce to take out a cltv license This protest, it Is claimed bv tho promoters, will bear the endorsement of twenty-six Ogden labor unions, rou-resentlng rou-resentlng more than one thousand "wage earners of this city Tho petl-'i tion already bears the official seal of jft several labor organizations of tho Ml city, and whon all have endorsed tho W measure, it will bo presented to tho 'i! city council. Tho wording of the pe- 'If tition Is as follows: (I' " the Honorable 'Mayor and City II i Council of Ogden City, Utah i-J f "Gentlemen: We, the undorsigned, t t as bona-fido citizens of Ogden. here- I with present to you a petition asking ; ; for the repeal of section 517 (Five I Forty-sevon) of tho LIconso code, in t .-part, .-part, as follows : , , "'For a llcenso to peddle or hawk ' I vegetables, garden produco, fruit, but- j ter, eggs, poultry, fish and game, for ? each wagon or stand; each wagon f or stand to havo a separata license ' for each product, $100. J '"Provided, that no person shall pay ; such license, for selling vegetables, 1 J fruit, butter, eggs and poultry grown j J by hlmsolf whon his monthly sales are less than $50 per month, but each per- T ? son shall make application for and re- t jj ceivo n freo llcenso and for register- l ing the samo shall pay $2 per year. ' I and shall receive and wear on his cap ' te a metal plate with tho words "Home j Vendor," with the date of the jear ' j the same waB Issued.'" , . "Tho foregoing is n discrimination j against tho consumers and farmers, ' and is for tho nrotcction nf nnK- at few, as tho producers should havo "the 1: w privilego of selling to whom hef ? pleases nnd at a prico suitable to both himself nnd purchaser. J k "The producer should not be com- fi U polled to sell to certain pnrtlos known as tho Butchors and Grocers' assocla- i I tlon. J. g "We also heartily endorse the f; j 'Fruit Growers' association in their i stand In this matter." tf , " Ik |