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    "ocrText": "565 Central Avenue,\nEast Orange, N. J..\nJune 8. 1921.\nMr. 1. R. Cross,\n33 Pino Street,\nCopies: Mr. Hooder, M. Schumb,\nNew York, N. Y.\nF Evarts.\nMy donr E. Cross:-\nYour kind letter of June 2nd received.\nyou are quite right that controversy over\nspilled beens would be a ridiculous thing. T appreciate,\nhowever, your final offort to remove misapprehonsion on the\nbasis of facts.\nSince the storm is over and I em not subject\nto, let us say. hypnotic influences, you will permit my ob-\njective recapitulation of setual happenings in parallel to\nyour statements.\nAt two February mootings of the R.L.N. Board\nof Directors, T asked the Board to decide on the management\nof the Company. define it and fix duties and responsibilities.\nThe Board expressed neknowledgement of our accomplishments in\n1920 and you stated then that you did not know enough about\nthe dotails of the Company's affairs to decide upon the matter.\nI insisted that in view of Mr. Blies's departure to Europe and\nbad industrial conditions, the management question should not\nbe left open and that there should not be any misunderstanding\nas to the responsibility for oarrying out the business.\nA very long and serious discussion with actual\nexamples followed and use closed by your motion and seconded\nby the Board \"to work no before\".\nSince montioned meeting. notual management of\nthe Company who in the hands of Hr. Rooder and I had not been\nkept in contact with any important affairs of the Company. At\nthe next meeting of the Board I asked for temporary powers of\nGeneral Manager, not because T felt particularly fitted for\nthat job. but to straighten the management question and to push\nthe work vigorously shood. By surgestion wes discarded and your\nmotion that \"President and Treasurer shall be responsible for\nearrying out outting down liquidation program necepted\". My\nfurther arguments that the management question should be settled\nat this moeting was not considered. T offered then enother But-\ngestion, that the Board should authorise either Mr. Roeder or my-\nself to carry out above program. your resolution, adopted ns\nabove, remained unchanged and unmodified.\nIt 1s interesting and illustrating that IF. Roe-\ndor 01d not sak for, nor were you willing to put him in charge\n- or -\naccording to my suggestion in this matter. Finally understandness\nwas reached that T should prepare outlay of management and present\nit at the next mooting. I propared three outlays, which are\n1st. on the Board of Managers principe,\n2nd. Mr. Hooder in charge of the general business and T in\ncharge of Minos and Plant on budget basis.\n3rd. Mr. Rooder in complete charge of the whole business\nand I having general advisory capacity with specific\nduties on Redium Sales promotion, supervision of qual-\nity of goods. improvement of processes, developing of\nby-products and expansion programs.\nI discussed, briefly. said programs with Mr. Rooder\nand since, due to constant work with Redium and Mesotherium my\nhealth went to the devil, T considered and suggested the lest pro-\ngram as the most logical one and Mr. \"ooder apparently agreed. I\nthen considered it advisable to talk the matter over with you and\nwe met for that purpose in orange.\nYou started about my managership wherens I informed\nyou immodiately about the programs as per above and asked your\nopinion about anme. There you said again that you dod not know\nenough about the Company's affairs to decide but that you would\nsleep over the matter.\nA few days Inter you naked me to meet you in your\noffice before the meeting of the Board and you informed no then\nthat after talking the matter over with other stockholders you\ndecided to put Mr. Booder in charge of the business and give him\na free hand. I replied that T MAIN glad of 11 end asked you what\nis your decision in my case. You reiterated with a direct ques-\ntion, what is my opinion about it? T called your attention to\nthe fact, that since you decided in one case and spoke for the\nmajority of the stookholders and since you are ausre of my three\nprograms. it is up to you to decide without any diplomney at all\nwhether T em suitable for any of the three programs or 1f my ser-\nvices were not required.\nyour noswer was that the Company of course would\nlike to preserve my services for the future and therefore could\nI take, let us say. n. position of \"advising\" chemist. I ssked\nyou than whether you believed that I would be worth the salary\nT an receiving now. etc., etc. You admitted then that the office\nof advising chemist is not necessary now but when T come back\nfrom R vacation, and lot us say open up on office of consulting\nchemist, Mr. Rooder might be in need of me \"I of course can thon\ncharge whatever etc.\". In other words you told me.\nin many variations, over and over the same, that is to go on a\nvacation and after T come back Mr. Roeder may need me or he may\nnot.\nThere was not a word spoken about a salary, you\nare mentioning now, with the exception of charging as por above.\nT naited you then whether under the conditions of uncortainty,\nwhether\n-my services would be required or not, is fair to DE to draw my\nsalary during vocation and orgo be under obligations² Here,\nto 0 #\nthere must be an empty space in my memory. since T cannot re-\ncollect at all your persuading me, as you claim, to the contrary.\nAfter forty-five minutes conversation you stood\nfirmly on your previous definition \"go on a vacation and after\nreturning Mr. Roeder may need you or he may not\". So to conclude\nthe matter, I asked you finally that I expect today your definite\ndecision and information by tomorrow morning as to whether I am\nfitting for any of the three programs or if my services are not\nrequired and since you had to decide on the waiting Board I would\nrather not attend it.\nShould you conclude finally that I am not neces-\nsary, I would exnect to be notified at once and in such ense\nyou have my resignation.\nThe next morning T received the resolution of the\nBoard accepting my \"resignation\". The factscould not be made\nany clearer. In reference to the paragraph where you state that\nthe Board of Directors authorized Mr. Roeder to endeavor to with-\ndraw my \"resignation\", the fact is that Mr. Roeder did not tell\nme so clearly, for which I,do not blamo him at all since he has\nbeen working hard enough, from December on and from February with\nyour assistance. for the program that T should be resigned\".\nAbove facts are 100% correct and you agree to that 100% too.\nT gladly helped you to put the above historic facts\nin correct order and leaving it to you to ruess, what conclusions\nI can derive for my own benefit from the above.\nI ber to remain\nVery truly yours,"
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