The peaceful settlement of industrial and intergroup disputes

differences can be worked over in the most vigorous and thorough fashion. An unwitting need to preserve the cultural values in any scientific work on the cultural mode may account in part for the 1 The present paper is based on intensive study of a sample of labor-management negotiations which, upon stalemating in the course of collective bargaining, were referred to a government mediation agency for assistance in coming to terms. A lengthier report of findings from this research is currently in process of preparation. Grants fom the Office of Naval Research and the Ford Foundation, together with the co-operation of the labor and management parties involved, as well as the Federal Mediation and Concili-