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20 Arb. J. 1 (1965)

handle is hein.journals/dsptrjr20 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORT TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION by Donald B. Straus* One year ago, on the occasion of the American Arbitration Asso- ciation's thirty-eighth annual meeting, we put forward a new pro- gram designed to make of the Association an even more significant force in American life than it had been in several decades of public service. We continue that discussion now, against a background of intensive efforts which resulted both in a sharpened awareness of our problems and in heightened confidence in the correctness of the new orientation. Because the promotion of arbitration and the administration of cases is a continuous process, the effectiveness of which can not al- ways be measured at calendar intervals, we begin with a re-statement of the new approach, as we saw it two years ago. Toward a Balanced Caseload The new outlook, as set forth in the 1964 Annual Report, con- sisted of four separate, but related, objectives. The first was to over- come the dependence of AAA and its eighteen regional offices on one kind of tribunal activity alone. In some instances, it was labor-manage- ment arbitration that occupied the attention of the Association's staff, almost to the exclusion of any other type of arbitration. In other re- gions-particularly those established most recently-uninsured motor- ist arbitration was the chief preoccupation. Only in a few regions was there a sufficient balance of labor-management, uninsured motorist, and commercial arbitration so that, even if it should happen that changes in objective conditions caused a reduction in the volume of arbitration cases in one field of activity, future growth would not be impaired. The second objective of the new approach was to modernize the President, American Arbitration Association. I