Arbitration (Administrative law)

An unruly infant labeled “Arbitration” cries, sitting in a high chair. Oscar S. Straus, as a nurse, is measuring out a spoonful of “Anti-Strike Tonic,” and a puzzled “Dr. Hanna” is standing behind the child. Caption: The child of the labor question worries its nurses.

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Comments and Context

As Minister to the Ottoman Empire, Oscar S. Straus was influential in persuading Turkish leaders to, in turn, persuade rebel Muslims in the Philippines not to actively join the native rebels then resisting United States occupation subsequent to the Spanish-American War. With that diplomatic success to his credit, he was appointed to be a member of the International Court of Arbitration at Hague upon the death of former President Benjamin Harrison. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Chairman of the Republic Party, spokesman for the party’s business interests, and nemesis of American organized labor (due in part to scabrous cartoon caricatures), tries unsuccessfully with Straus in this cartoon to delete strike provisions from arbitration treaties. In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor, the first Jew to be a cabinet secretary. Subsequently, President William Howard Taft returned him ministerial duties in Turkey. Straus’s brother Isadore perished on the Titanic; Isadore another brother Nathan owned Macy’s and Abraham & Straus department stores; Nathan, Jr., became owner of Puck Magazine in 1914, and before World War II was a friend of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank. A great-nephew, R. Peter Straus, owned New York radio station WMCA and the publishing house Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, whose son, R. Peter, Jr., married the mother of Monica Lewinsky.

President Roosevelt praises Judge George Gray’s work on the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission and agrees with his opinion on the composition of the arbitration conciliation committees.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-31

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Ambassador Bryce about an article Roosevelt wrote for The Outlook. The article dealt with the arbitration treaty between the nations and the work going into it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-19

Volney W. Foster proposes an amendment to the law governing appeals to the National Board of Arbitration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-21

Charles Henry Butler wants to bring to President Roosevelt’s attention a 1796 treaty with Tripoli, the text of which is enclosed. Butler discusses the differences between the arbitration done by the United States then and now.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-12

Celebratory music written for President Roosevelt’s successful negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War. The song is dedicated to Roosevelt, which is noted at the top of page three.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1905

President Roosevelt has emerged from the Anthracite Coal Strike with the confidence of the people and the respect of businessmen. He can clearly get things done.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902

President Roosevelt believes that it is incorrect to call the proposed tribunal an arbitration, noting that he will not sanction an arbitration and has not done so in the past. He would be willing to meet with Frederick William Holls and Andrew Shaw together or separately at any time.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-02-03

The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission needs to lay a “broad and durable” foundation for the reconstruction of the anthracite industry. Arbitration will bring the strike to an end but a major concern is now the protection of miners that continued to work outside of the strike. Employees that remained loyal are at the mercies of local sentiment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-17