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    "ocrText": "RECEIVED 9 192)\nCh\n2nd June, 1921.\nMy dear Dr. Sochocky:\nI have received your letter of the 27th\nultimo upon my return from out of town, and regret the change\nin your attitude evidenced by its tone. I have no desire to\nenter into controversial correspondence with you, but in the\ninterests of accuracy I feel that I ought to state the essen-\ntial facts in the matter in an effort to remove from your mind\nsame of the misapprehensions shown in your letter.\nIt had been evident forsome time that\nyou and Mr. Roeder could not work in harmony, and that the con-\nduct of the business of the Company was suffering from this\nfact. On April 27th, at a meeting of the Board you proposed\ntosolve the problem by having yourself made General Manager of\nthe Company, and you will recall that you declined to allow any\ndiscussion by the Directors. If I remember rightly the resolu-\ntion was not seconded, and the Board voted to take all possible\nsteps to make the position of the Company more liquid under the\njoint direction of yourself and Mr. Roeder. At our interview in\nOrange I told you frankly that I did not approve personally of\nputting you in complete charge of the Company's affairs, because\nI did not feel that you were by training or temperament fitted to\ncarry the matter to a successful conclusion, and left after you\nhad assured me that whatever the Directors decided to do would\nbe satisfactory to you. I discussed the matter with the other\nDirectors, particularly with Mr. Roeder who made it clear that &\ncontinuation of divided directions spelt ruin for the Company,\nand on May 25th at my office I told you that I thought the\nBoard would decide to let Mr. Roeder work out the necessary ad-\njustment of the Company's affairs. I knew that the Board would\nwant to retain your connectionswith the Company, and suggested\nthat this might be done by appointing you Chief Consulting Chemist\nat the same salary that you were then receiving. You then wanted\nto know what your duties would be, and I told you I did not believe\n- 2 -\nthat Mr. Roeder would be in & position to cover this point until\nhe had had a chance to get his plans worked out, and suggested\nthat in order to give him a free hand you take a vacation.\nYou then took the ground that you did not want to re-\nceive a salary during your vacation, 88 that would leave you under\nobligation to the Company, and stated that you preferred to take\nyour vacation without salary in order that upon your return you\nmight be in a position todisouss your further relations with the\nCompany \"freely\". I did my best to dissuade you from this posi-\ntion, but W&D unsuccessful, and after announcing your resignation\nyou suggested that the Board could disouse the matter better in\nyour absence, and said that instead of attanding the meeting you\nwould go to Orange and write out your resignation. The Board\nheard my report with regret, and authorized the Treasurer to en-\ndeavor to get you to withdraw your resignation the next day. In\nthis, I understand, he was uneucoeseful. How you gathered from\nwhat happened that you were \"fired by Mr. Cross\" I fail to under-\nstand, nd trust that your reconsideration of the facts will alter\nyour views on this subject.\nVery truly yours,\nDr. S. A. von Sochocky,\n565 Central Avenue,\nEast Orange, N.J."
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