Letters Sent to Dr. Herman Schlundt, June 5, 1928

June 5th,1928. Dr. Herman Schlundt, University of Missouri, Room 110 New Chemistry Bldg., Columbia, Mo. Dear Dr. Schlundt: It is my privilege to advise you that the cases of the five complainants suing us for injuries claimed during their employment by us, have been zettled out of court. The essential points of the settle- ment are as follows: Each girl is bo receive $10,000 cash plus an annual pension of $600.00 such pension to be paid as long as the complainant is suffering from the result of her employment by us. A Board consisting of three (3) medical men, one to be appointed by the plaintiffs, one by ourselves and the third selected by the other two, is to pass upon the conditions of the girls and judge whether or not they are suffering at this time as a result of their employment. No one who has been in any way connected with the present litigation is subject to appointment on this Board, and those who are appointed must have had experience with radium. We feel that such a Board will be able to handle the situation from an unbiased standpoint, and that eventually the truth regarding this situation will be put before the public. We feel at the present that these suits have been built almost exclusively upon public sentiment by the unscrupulous methods of their attorney Raymond H. Berry. It is surprising that a man of lir.Berry's caliber can do when he sets about it. The oposition unfortunately became interested in this proposition through the solicitation of Dr. Sochocky, and their cases have been built upon the foundations laid by him. It is our belief that Dr. Sochocky has been the guiding factor in indicating at the outset that there was a hazard connected in this work, and unfortunately his reason for doing do was not based on any légitinate purpose. Fortunately for him he became associated with such a man as Martland, who had no reason to believe that his purposes were other than the best, and was therefore, led along through the path which Dr. Sochocky indicated. Dr. Martland and others have operated in the best of faith, but unfortunately in our opinion have operated upon preverted facts and misinformation. We are only too glad to recomize what may be considered legitimate cases, but we do not believe that any one of the five are such. It is possible that the Freyer case may have bs one time contained a small amount of radio-active material, but she has at this time completely eliminated same, and her chance for recovery under peoper medical attention is probably good.