' "I knew nothing about MRA, but plenty about Larry Shapiro - and it wasn't good," said Mr Patterson. "He was rated our toughest negotiator - a man who wouldn't give an inch. Imagine my surprise when he began his conference by suggesting that we use 'absolute honesty, purity, love and unselfishness' as a basis for reopening labor management discussions. He . . . convinced me of his sincerity. So we called a meeting in Denver, Oct 26."

'At the end of five days around a conference table, Mr Patterson said, management and labour had "openly and frankly and entirely without rancour, reduced the original 119 demands to thirteen". Eight of the thirteen demands have been entirely settled and the rest will be concluded within the next weeks, Mr Patterson said.

' "If anyone had told me sixty days ago that we weren't headed into a knock-down and drag-out strike, I would have said they were dreaming," Mr Patterson said. "We had been trying for sixteen months to avoid a strike, which I knew was going to cost our company at least $12,000,000 and also be a possible threat to national security. But there isn't going to be a strike - and what is much more important, a new spirit of trust and confidence has been born." '28

In fact, neither in America or Britain did industrial concerns give large sums to Buchman's work. In the financial year which included Buchman's death the contribution of industrial firms in Britain was a fraction more than 1% of the total received, as it was also in the following year. In America industry's contribution in 1962 and 1963 was approximately 0.5% of the total received.

Indeed, an analysis of any year shows that large gifts were exceptional. In the year of Buchman's death, 84.9% of contributors in Britain gave less than £10 and 0.4% £1000 or more, while in America 85.2% gave less than $100 and 14.8% more than $100.29

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