  We introduce a sequent calculus FL' for non-commutative substructural logic.
It has at most one formula on the right side of sequent, and excludes three
structural inference rules, i.e. contraction, weakening and exchange. (FL' is
based on our investigations of the Gentzen-style natural deduction for
non-commutative substructural logics.) FL' has the same proof strength as the
standard sequent calculus FL (Full Lambek), which is the basic sequent calculus
for all other substructural logics. For the standard FL, we use Ono's
formulation. Although FL' and the standard FL are equivalent, there is a subtle
difference in the left rule of implication. In the standard FL, two parameters
$\Gamma_1$ and $\Gamma_2$(resp.), each of which is just an finite sequence of
arbitrary formulas, appear on the left and right side (resp.) of a formula
which is placed on the left side of the sequent on the upper left side of the
left rule $\imply$ (which corresponds to $\imply'$ in FL'). On the other hand,
there is no such parameter on the left side of the sequent on the upper left
side in the left rule for $\imply'$ of FL'. In FL', $\Gamma_1$ is always empty,
and only $\Gamma_2$ is allowed to occur in the left rule for $\imply'$.
(Similar differences occur in multiplicative and additive conjunctions, and in
additive disjunction.) This difference between FL' and FL matters deeply, for
we are led to a construction of proof-figures in FL', which show how the
associativity of multiplicative conjunction and the distributivity of
multiplicative conjunction over additive disjunction are involved in the
eliminations of the cut rule in those proof-figures. We specify how
associativity and distributivity are related to the non-eliminability of an
application of the cut rule in those proof-figures of FL'.
