Ed Raiden
251 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, Calif. 90012
Dear Ed:
I did not personally see Sennawald. The place he is at is a complicated series officies [sic]. The receptionist went to wherever be was and returned saying that he had instructed her to accept service of the paper for him. I showed her the original and handed her a copy and that was it. I hope the man honors the subpoena. Short of having the Marshall serve the paper, it was the only way of handling the matter.
After my visit with you and Leaquita the other night, I talked with Jim, Billy and the others about the dissatisfactions of the One group. We are now of the opinion that our willingness to settle out of court has been interpreted as weakness and that we are in danger of being taken advantage of. At no stage of this whole mess has any one of us ever been wiling to give up everything as a means of coming to terms. The agreement we finally signed was one that we were reluctant about. Most of us felt that if were giving up the name ONE then we should keep all of the possessions - or fight it out in court. However, since we accepted the terms of the agreement we lived up to them.
Now the Venice group wants more. They now want to re-introduce into arbitration those things which were excluded in the agreement. I suppose we should not bet surprised by their attitude, but, because of it, we now take the position that we have in every way fulfilled the terms of the settlement with the exception of tile minutes and seal - which are accounted for. We take the position that since we have not seen anything to the contrary, that the notices sent out by One explaining the compromise violated the agreement and for that reason we are no longer bound by it. We will resist all attempts at arbitration on the grounds that there is nothing more to talk about. Short of some higher authority than a selected board of arbitrators insisting upon it, we will never agree to a meeting in our offices if that is to mean giving anyone the opportunity to look through my desk or our files, etc.
You may think we have gone mad, but we are only acting in our own self-interest which is apparently what we should have done long ago. I hope this does not go on for years, but this is as far as we are going to be pushed for the sake of keeping these idiots off our backs.
Cordially
Don Slater
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