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NOV 23 1928
LAW OFFICES
POTTER AND BERRY
60 PARK PLACE
NEWARK, N.J.
THOMAS POTTER
RAYMOND H. BERRY
MULBERRY 4211-4212
EVELYN V. KRAEMER
November 23, 1928.
United States Radium Corporation,
535 Pearl Street,
New York City.
Gentlemen:
When I talked with your President Mr. Lee,
on Monday night of this week I understood that Dr .Schlundt
was in New York and that he was interested in making an
examination of the former employees of the Radium Corpora-
tion who are at present engaged in litigation with the com-
pany as the result of injuries sustained because of their
employment. I did not realize that it was planned at the
time that Dr. Schlundt should in any way examine or come in
contact with the five women whose suits against the Radium
Corporation were settled this June.
At the time of settlement a great deal of em-
phasis was placed upon the fact that the committee to be
chosen pursuant to the terms of the settlement agreement was
to be non-partisan. I pointed out at the time the fact that
this really placed the women at a disadvantage inasmuch as we
had shown our hand in presenting our case whereas there was
no means of our knowing just what doctors the Radium Corpora-
tion intended to rely upon in the litigation. Nevertheless
the agreement was made that the members of the committee
should be absolutely non-partisan and should proceed in a non-
partisan marner of its own choosing to examine the five women.
After such strong insistance by the Radium Corporation repre-
sentatives that the committee should be chosen and should
function in such a manner I was of course most surprised to
learn that Dr. Schlundt conducted the recent examination of the
five women at the Marseilles Hotel in New York this week. I
believe this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement.
Without casting any reflections whatsoever upon Dr.
Schlundt I do not think it possible to view him in any other
light than of partisan. He was certainly involved in the liti-
gation. He made examinations before trial for the Radium Corp-
oration. He is an intimate friend of Mr. Barker, Vice Presi-
dent of the Radium Corporation, having been associated with him
in the University of Missouri. I em familiar with the article
which they jointly published in the University of Missouri Bul-
letin, Volume 24, Number 26, in September, 1923. I am inform-
ed that Dr. Schlundt is consultant for a mesothorium corpora-
tion and presume naturally that he has the interests of the in-
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