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Number of elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, by regions

printed as Table 21 · source page 56 · nlrb1938_p0056_t0

	Number of elections			Number of employees		Valid votes cast						Percentage of valid votes cast			Number of elections won			Number of elections lost by all unions
	Consent	Ordered	Total	Eligible to vote	Voting	Total	For trade unions	For unaffiliated unions		Against all unions	For neither	For trade unions	For unaffiliated unions	Against all unions	By trade unions	By unaffiliated unions		Number of elections lost by all unions
	Consent	Ordered	Total	Eligible to vote	Voting	Total	For trade unions	National	Local	Against all unions	For neither	For trade unions	For unaffiliated unions	Against all unions	By trade unions	National	Local	Number of elections lost by all unions
Region:
1. Boston	52	22	74	31,957	27,590	27,350	17,964	417	1,775	7,173	21	65.7	8.0	26.3	52	3	8	11
2. New York	246	90	336	69,886	63,753	62,576	49,732	1,661	3,461	6,106	1,616	79.5	8.2	12.3	282	4	8	42
3. Buffalo	22	8	30	11,420	10,300	10,134	6,502	423	2,049	999	161	64.2	24.4	11.4	22		6	2
4. Philadelphia	65	1	66	16,670	14,804	14,540	8,923	772	925	3,916	4	61.4	11.7	26.9	46	1	5	14
5. Baltimore	59	31	90	32,392	28,937	28,606	19,709	111	2,176	6,372	238	68.9	8.0	23.1	71		6	13
6. Pittsburgh	8	7	15	11,011	9,943	9,633	5,353		2,346	1,565	369	55.6	24.3	20.1	9		1	5
7. Detroit	23	10	33	9,033	8,791	8,665	4,876	1,110	756	1,636	287	56.3	21.5	22.2	12	9	4	8
8. Cleveland	29	22	51	50,415	42,205	41,682	29,423	355	4,441	7,357	106	70.6	11.5	17.9	36		7	8
9. Cincinnati	48	6	54	17,283	16,073	15,755	7,437	3,874	2,272	2,092	80	47.2	39.0	13.8	25	2	10	17
10. Atlanta	16	19	35	18,805	16,345	16,004	10,812		196	4,951	45	67.6	1.2	31.2	26		1	8
11. Indianapolis	30	6	36	11,499	10,097	9,790	6,975		803	1,876	136	71.2	8.2	20.6	22		4	10
12. Milwaukee	28	8	36	22,467	20,732	20,100	15,442	164	780	3,272	442	76.8	4.7	18.5	29		2	5
13. Chicago	39	12	51	25,781	22,968	22,689	15,173	74	4,322	2,344	776	66.9	19.4	13.7	37		4	10
14. St. Louis	14	4	18	3,300	2,861	2,794	2,190		48	556		78.4	1.7	19.9	12		1	5
15. New Orleans	16	6	22	9,565	8,608	8,251	4,926	30	1,693	1,446	156	59.7	20.9	19.4	13		4	5
16. Fort Worth	9	6	15	2,518	2,307	2,295	1,109	154	565	426	41	48.3	31.3	20.4	9	1	2	3
17. Kansas City	16	1	17	5,878	5,372	5,308	2,651		1,747	910		50.0	32.9	17.1	9		2	6
18. Minneapolis	31	3	34	11,418	10,512	10,407	7,380	723	1,847	395	62	70.9	24.7	4.4	24	1	2	7
19. Seattle	7	5	12	4,867	4,454	4,251	4,111			56	84	96.7		3.3	11			1
20. San Francisco	16	39	55	15,234	13,858	12,681	5,691	1,633	3,869	1,297	191	44.9	43.4	11.7	33	7	4	11
21. Los Angeles	31	32	63	11,562	9,851	9,527	6,266	374	1,493	861	533	65.8	19.6	14.6	32	14	3	14
22. Denver	7	2	9	688	599	549	344	20	22	152	11	62.7	7.6	29.7	4	3		2
Total	812	340	1,152	394,558	350,960	343,587	232,989	11,895	37,586	55,758	5,359	67.8	14.4	17.8	816	45	84	207

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1 Valid votes include all votes cast less blank, void, and challenged votes.
2 Unaffiliated unions which represent more than one plant or company.
3 Unaffiliated unions which represent one plant or company.
4 I. e., votes cast for neither organization when more than one labor organization appeared on the ballot.
5 Includes votes cast "for neither."
6 Includes 13 elections which resulted in a tie vote.

299 of 322 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Total', column 5: prints 394,558, rows '1. Boston' to '22. Denver' add to 393,649.

Reader’s notes

p. 56. 19 columns. The stub column has no printed heading; "Region:" is a body line with no values. Blank value cells are printed as dash rules and are transcribed as "". This is a degraded 1-bit scan in which 0/6 and 0/9 are easily confused. Ten cells were visually ambiguous and are transcribed as the digit that the printed row total and the printed column total independently require (both checks agree in every case; no value was computed where the print is legible): Chicago consent 39 (reads like 30; 39+12=51 and the column total 812 both require 39); Baltimore valid votes Total 28,606 (reads like 28,600; its row components sum to 28,606 and the column total 343,587 requires it); New Orleans for trade unions 4,926 (reads like 4,026); Fort Worth for trade unions 1,109 (reads like 1,100); Kansas City for trade unions 2,651 (reads like 2,051); San Francisco for trade unions 5,691 (reads like 5,091) — these four are each fixed by their row and jointly by the column total 232,989; San Francisco local 3,869 (reads like 3,860; also required by the printed 43.4 percentage); Minneapolis against all unions 395 (reads like 305; also required by the printed 4.4 percentage); Cleveland elections won by trade unions 36 (reads like 30) and Milwaukee 29 (reads like 20), both required by their rows and by the column total 816. One unresolved discrepancy: the "Number of employees — Eligible to vote" column as transcribed sums to 393,649, but the printed total is 394,558, a difference of 909. Every other column's entries sum exactly to its printed total, so either one or two digits in this column are misread in the scan (the likeliest candidates are the hundreds digit of Pittsburgh's 11,011 or Detroit's 9,033, a 0/9 pair worth 900, plus a units digit worth 9 in Buffalo's 11,420 or St. Louis's 3,300) or the printed total is a misprint. I could not resolve it at this image resolution, so all five cells are transcribed exactly as they appear. Minor: Philadelphia's "Against all unions" percentage is printed 26.9 although 3,920/14,540 rounds to 27.0, and Kansas City's trade-union percentage is printed 50.0 although 2,651/5,308 rounds to 49.9; in both rows the three printed percentages sum to 100.0, so both are transcribed as printed.

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Source page 56 of NLRB FY1938 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1938, p. 56.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.