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Augu st 2 1 , 19W 19 ; Mr. Manfred; Bovditch, Director, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries, 23 Jcy Street, Boston 1^, Mass. Dear Bovditch: ' . I am very grateful to you for writing to me and sending me various Iteips of correspondence in relation to the problem of a meeting place for this year. Let me hasten to say that I am in complete agreement with your opinion concerning the present difficulties of going along with the A.A.I.Pi and S. Certainly the commercial aspects of this matter have been much too prominent and have been allowed to submerge moite primary considerations. I vant no part In any such procedure, and I should like to dissociate myself from the necessity of dealing with such considerations. It would he m y instant reaction to escape from this situation at once and directly, so as to make the issue quite clear, except for one consideration. In m y opinion it Is not the intention of the Board of Directors and the common run of members of the A .A .1 .p. and 3._ to run the show on this kind of a basis . I believe that in time we can effect a relationship with this organization in such a manner as to eliminated the features that are now embarrassing and so as to develop a mutually beneficial and scientific relationship. X object as much as you do to stalling and appeasement, and if ve cannot make some headway in achieving our purpose, the A.I.H.A. vill have to cut loose, the consequences of this, in my opinion, vill be worse for th doctors than it will be for the industrial hygien ists. Perhaps it is for that reason that I feel as strongly as I do on the subject, but I think not. In my opinion, the importance of our going along together is so great that ve can afford to carry on fo r a time with unsatisfactory conditions, not, however* without presenting our own case and fighting for what we consider to be necessary. From the more recent correspondence received from Mr. Bloomfield and others, i t appears that the issue has been settled for this year and that we are to meet with the A.A.I.P. and S. as in former years. As chairman of this year*s program committee, and as a member of certain committees in the A.A.I.P. and S. organi zation, I shall have an opportunity to forward the point of view nU b'l'y D Mr. Manfred Bovditch - (2; - August 21, 1944 which you have expressed and in which I concur, from both the outside and the Inside. I shall do this as vigorously as I am able. So far ns I am concerned I am willing to abide by the results of' this year's attempt. I am not sending copies of this letter cc anyone else, because I do not wish to appear to be playing both ends against the middle in this situation. On the other hand j, in viev of your remarks I feel that I would like you co understand just what I have in mind and why. Sincerely years, FAK ef BobeFT 11 nehoe,