Arbitration Attorneys

A Federal judge asked General Motors and the United Automobile Workers today to schedule a date for the arbitration of strikes at two auto parts factories here as top negotiators from the auto maker and union talked face to face for the first time in three days.

Judge Paul V. Gadola Jr. did not grant G.M.’s request for an order that arbitration begin immediately. But he urged both sides to agree by Tuesday on a date to meet with an arbiter, Thomas Roberts. G.M. and the U.A.W. said they would comply.

While both sides said they were satisfied with the decision, it still amounted to a small victory for G.M.The company has suffered heavily from the strikes, which began on June 6 and have shut down 26 of G.M.’s 29 North American assembly lines.

Both sides had earlier agreed to arbitrate, but the auto maker had accused the union of stalling on setting a date. While the union had denied this, union officials had said as recently as Tuesday that they saw no need to speed up the arbitration process. G.M. wants the arbiter to rule on whether the walkouts here are local strikes, which are allowed under G.M.’s labor contract, or a national strike, which is not allowed.

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Minnesota Twins: Brad Radke stayed with the Minnesota Twins, agreeing Tuesday night to an $18 million, two-year contract.

The Twins also offered arbitration to third baseman Corey Koskie, left-hander Terry Mulholland and catcher Henry Blanco. However, Blanco agreed to a two-year deal with the Chicago Cubs.

“I think it turned out for the best for both sides,” Radke said. “It feels good. You know, the Twins always said that I was their top priority to sign this year and I feel the same way.

“I feel the Twins were my first priority, and I’m just glad it got done,” he said.

Radke formed a dominant duo with Johan Santana at the top of the Twins’ rotation last season. He went 11-8 with a 3.48 ERA in 219 2/3 innings.

Teams had until midnight ET to offer their own eligible players binding arbitration.

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One hundred or more foreigners, whose ideal is universal peace and who have been considering means to that end at the thirteenth International Peace Congress, which was in session in Boston last week, arrived here yesterday for a three days’ visit. The first function held in their honor was a reception and luncheon at the Hotel Astor yesterday afternoon, given by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation.

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Plans have been perfected by the International Chamber of Commerce, the American section of which has headquarters in Washington, for the establishment of a new international court of arbitration for the settlement and adjustment of commercial disputes between different countries.

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Nearly all the Governments have sent instructions to their delegations to the Peace Conference to make an effort to bring about some kind of obligatory arbitration and also the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration in order to save the conference from failure.

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The Associated Press is able to announce that the proposition of President Roosevelt, which was to-day communicated through Baron Rosen to M. Witte and transmitted by the latter to Emperor Nicholas, is based upon the principle of arbitration

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An attempt was made yesterday to settle the great strike which has for weeks inconvenienced every business man in the city and caused incalculable suffering among the poor, including the strikers themselves. It was an effort to bring about an arbitration of at least a

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The deadlock between the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joines and the Building Trades Emoployers’ Association remained unbroken yesterday, but Henry J. Skeffington, Concillation

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It must be a solid satisfaction to Mr. ROOT that the last important act of his administration of the State Department should have been the completion of the arrangements for the arbitration of the fisheries question with Great Britain. That question has been one of the most troublesome in the history of our diplomacy.

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To-morrow the iron-workers will present the scale to the mill-owners for their signatures. It will remain in their hands under consideration to the 1st of June, when the workers will again demand the scale signed or the work will stop.

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SCRANTON, Penn., April 19. The Arbitration Board which has been in session at Mauch Chunk, adjourned today, after failing to come to any agreement.

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MANCHESTER, May 1. At a meeting of the Committee of the Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Association yesterday a communication from the operatives was received, offering to submit the subject of the reduction of wages to arbitration, but the committee decided to refuse arbitration. It was expressed as certain that unless the strike terminates before next Wednesday the Preston employers will again close their mills.

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At the headquarters of the Executive Board of the strikers, yesterday afternoon, Master Workman Magee received the following letter from the State Board of Arbitration in reply to his request to the board Wednesday to make another effort at a settlement:

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The Senate to-day passed the Railway Arbitration bill by a vote of 47 to 3. Those against the bill were Money, (Dem., Miss.,) Rawlins, (Dem., Utah,) and Tillman, (Dem., S.C.)

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The recent Peace Congress at Geneva does not appear to have been made up of delegates of any especial prominence in the science of international law, or as politicians or statesmen

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Arbitration is customarily appealed to by those who appreciate that they are fighting a losing game, and seek support for their cause. Arbitration has merits, but partisanship is not one of them. An arbitral award must compel acceptance by its Justice, since it lacks any other sanction. Arbitration must be voluntary, or it is not arbitration.

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The most interesting feature of the discussion on the Venezuelan question in the British Parliament was the variety of reference made to the general question of arbitration. This is obviously of more lasting importance than what is likely to be the course of the immediate question toward the settlement that now seems practically assured.

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The Atlanta Braves acquired two solid starting pitchers earlier in the week, they continue to
talk to the Montreal Expos about getting Bartolo Colón or Javier Vazquez and yesterday they retained Greg Maddux for their rotation. If it seems as if the pitching-rich Braves are cornering the market on pitchers, they are.

Maddux, a free agent, re-enlisted for his 11th season with the Braves, accepting their offer of salary arbitration. While Maddux, the 36-year-old right-hander, will not be going anywhere, it is likely that another Atlanta pitcher will be.

Given the crowded state of the starting corps, the Braves are prepared to trade a pitcher. The general manager of another team said he had heard that the Braves would trade Russ Ortiz, whom they obtained in a trade with the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday, to the St. Louis Cardinals for second baseman Fernando Viña.

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George M. Pullman, President of the Pullman Palace Car Company, who arrived in this city from the Thousand Islands yesterday morning, issued from the company’s offices, in the Mills Building, last evening, the following statement regarding the strike of the Pullman employes, which was made the pretext for the general railroad strikes in the West, and especially referring to the proposition of the now defeated strike leaders for arbitration

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The presentation yesterday of the formal British protest against free passage for American coastwise ships through the Panama Canal seems to have made little change in the attitude of Senators. They seem agreed to-day that the suggestion of Secretary Stimson to repeal the no-toll provision is out of the question in the face of the vote adopting that provision last Summer

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