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Distribution of cases received during the fiscal year 1943, by industry

printed as Table 5 · source page 95 · nlrb1943_p0095_t0

Industrial groupAll casesUnfair labor practice casesRepresentation cases
Industrial groupNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of total
Total9,543100.03,403100.06,140100.0
Manufacturing7,56079.22,72980.24,83178.7
Food and kindred products5445.72015.93435.6
Tobacco manufactures30.39.321.3
Textile-mill products3213.41364.01853.0
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials2722.91494.41232.0
Lumber and timber basic products2903.0902.62003.3
Furniture and finished lumber products2212.3962.81252.0
Paper and allied products1751.8601.81151.9
Printing, publishing, and allied industries2072.2802.31272.1
Chemicals and allied products4254.51063.13195.2
Products of petroleum and coal1261.331.9951.6
Rubber products57.620.637.6
Leather and leather products2262.41193.51071.7
Stone, clay, and glass products2512.61013.01502.4
Iron and steel and their products1,51215.847313.91,03916.9
Nonferrous metals and their products2482.6862.51622.6
Machinery (except electrical)8919.32988.85939.7
Electrical machinery3723.91273.72454.0
Transportation equipment1,14612.044813.269811.4
Aircraft and parts5535.82236.63305.4
Automotive971.024.7731.2
Ship and boat building and repairing4755.01935.72824.6
Other21.28.213.2
Miscellaneous manufacturing2462.6992.91472.4
Agriculture and forestry26.312.414.2
Mining3593.81002.92594.2
Metal mining1501.624.71262.0
Coal mining77.8391.138.6
Crude petroleum and natural gas production45.511.334.6
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying87.926.8611.0
Construction85.9431.342.7
Wholesale trade2953.11083.21873.0
Retail trade1481.5561.6921.5
Finance, insurance, and real estate1431.5401.21031.7
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities7167.52196.44978.1
Highway passenger transportation61.630.931.5
Highway freight transportation991.0531.546.8
Water transportation68.726.842.7
Warehousing and storage62.717.545.7
Other transportation44.518.526.4
Communication90.924.7661.1
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services2923.1511.52413.9
Services2112.2962.81151.9

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  1. 1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification. Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1941.

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Reader’s notes

p. 95. Seven columns: stub plus Number/Percent of total pairs for All cases, Unfair labor practice cases, and Representation cases. The stub heading carries footnote marker 1 ("Industrial group^1"). The body is unnumbered but indentation marks hierarchy: Manufacturing, Agriculture and forestry, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance insurance and real estate, Transportation communication and other public utilities, and Services are major groups; the indented lines under Manufacturing, under Transportation equipment (itself a Manufacturing subgroup with its own indented detail), under Mining and under Transportation/communication are their components. No separate section-label rows are printed. Arithmetic checks all pass as transcribed: in every row the Unfair labor practice Number plus the Representation Number equals the All cases Number, and the nine major-group Numbers sum to the printed Total of 9,543. No misprints detected. Doubtful cells, all read as given with moderate-to-good certainty: Mining, "Unfair labor practice cases / Percent of total" — the glyphs are smudged in the scan and read 2.9, which is consistent with 100/3,403; "Other transportation", "Unfair labor practice cases / Percent of total" — a stray ink speck precedes the decimal point, printed as "..5", transcribed as .5. Percentages below 1 are printed without a leading zero (e.g. ".3") and are kept that way. Values in the 1,000s are printed with a space after the comma in the scan ("9, 543", "1, 512", "1, 039", "1, 146", "7, 560", "2, 729", "4, 831", "3, 403", "6, 140") and have been closed up per instruction.

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Source page 95 of NLRB FY1943 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1943, p. 95.

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.