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Show leave them enough to carry on ",c'r bu3lnt'HH. So that plan was practical' ly abandoned. Retailers Are D(tter. Tbo members of the pnrly expressed thorns Ives freely In regard to the nc j order li?-uued by the whotosabirs, and many of them expressed the belief that a number of the smaller dealers would be forced out of business. V.'hn fit least ?0 per cent of the wsgi-camcrs of the elty are- paid only odcoi a month, and, after waiting thirty thir-ty days, have to wait ten days longer before they can draw their choc!;, the? grocers brieve It Is unfair to ask such customers to pay their bill weekly or expect them to do so. It was finally decided to end-ire the Injustice for the preent at least and to pay the bll's weekly. However, a call la bHng Issued for a mediae: of all the retail grocers of the ?fU to bo held November .r, at which the matter will V discussed on a broad scale and some plan of action deeded , uron. i It has been suggested that a central exchange be formed, of which every retail grocer of tin; state should be a member, and some plnn devised wberebv tVy pould order by car'onds direct from the raan-'facturer and then distribute the pro''""' f-e 'e : exchange to the various retailers. This, it Is urged, would do nway with the middlemen's coram is. on. At any rate, the retailers will do a lote of scheming between now and November 5 In order to fit up foiiip plan to even , up with the wholesalers. RETAILERS GET THE WORST OF THE DEAL Weekly Settlement Order of Wholesalers Whole-salers Works Great Hardship Hard-ship on Grocers. Tho Salt Lake Tribune says: It was anything hut a pleasure trip that sixty-three Salt Lake retail grocers gro-cers took to Ogden canyon Sunday, j The purpose of the trip was to dis- . cuss earnestly, calmly, and with a.i little disturbance as possible, the recent re-cent edict of tho wholesalers of the city requiring tho reUiil dealer to pay for merchandise purchased from the wholesalers at the end of each week, iustoad of monthly, as has been done in the past. The new order will go Into effect on August K., and th retail re-tail dealer who fails to settle up every week will be refused any credit whatever what-ever by . the wholesale liouflea of the city, and. In that event, may have to Close Up hllBlDOHS. The party of retail grocers wen to Ogden and then proceeded by special car to the Hermitage, where tho day was spent In serlou-J del.l.eration. The matter of establishing their own commission com-mission house was discussed at length, and it was found that it would retire at least "VM) from each of the dealers present to establish such a house, and that was more than many Oi the small dealers could raise and , |