Letters Sent to Josiah Stryker, December 12, 1927

December 12,1927. Mr. Josiah Stryker, c/o Lindabury Depue and Faulks, Broad Street, Newark, N.T. Dear 11f. Stryker: We have checked up on all the points covered in the conference at Nr. Roeder's on November 30th, with the exception of interviewing Dr. Cameron of the Radium Chemical Company. Dr. Cameron has not been available until this week, and we propose to see him at the earliest date. As regards the decrease in the number of our employees in the application plant after the trouble was first discovered ** we do not believe that this information will be of particular value since our employees were only a few. When we first learned of the difficulty we immediately had our people examined by the Life Extension Institute; and we find there were only a total of 6 at that time. We continued to run our application plant with more or less help as the business demanded until about May 1925, when we started the Starkey Dial Company of New York City, in the application business. We continued in Orange with two or three operators until the end of the year. Of course there was more or less uncertainty on the part of our employees, and some undoubtedly quit on account of the newspaper publicity, but this department was so small that the facts of the case would not be of any great importance. We are enclosing herewith copies of these examinations made by the Life Extension Institute in March 1924. Dr. Fisk, Director of the Institute says that he was impressed by the earnestness of our desire to find out if there was anything wrong with our employees. They made tests for metalic poisoning, and found only what he considers con- ditions common to the general run of factory workers. There is another point in this connection which may be of impordance, and that is that the original reports on these examinations were given to the girls. You will notice that these reports advise them to consult their family physicians. Had we been disposed to "cover up" as the plaintiff's charge certainly we would never have given reports of these examinations to our employees. While the Life Extension Institute are not particularly anxious to become mixed up in any litigation, Dr. Fisk states that they