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Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1943

printed as Table 11 · source page 102 · nlrb1943_p0102_t0

Participating unionsNumber of elections and pay-roll checksElections and pay-roll checks wonEligible votersValid votes cast
Participating unionsNumber of elections and pay-roll checksBy A. F. of L. affiliatesBy C. I. O. affiliatesBy unaffiliated unionsNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalFor A. F. of L. affiliatesFor C. I. O. affiliatesFor unaffiliated unionsAgainst unions
Participating unionsNumber of elections and pay-roll checksNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentAgainst unions
Total4,1531,39833.71,76642.541610.01,402,04080.31,126,501267,11823.7515,27145.7140,78012.5203,332
A. F. of L. affiliates1,3151,07281.5226,54782.2186,309131,17170.455,138
C. I. O. affiliates1,5801,34485.1478,41379.9382,453284,81674.597,637
Unaffiliated unions32827684.165,82581.353,50640,63375.912,873
A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates51321141.126852.2328,69978.3257,407100,58039.1132,92151.623,906
A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffiliated unions16010465.05232.565,40381.553,28030,05056.419,03035.74,200
C. I. O. affiliates-unaffiliated unions22714363.08035.2215,41882.0176,72792,08352.175,89042.98,754
A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated unions301136.71136.7826.721,73577.416,8195,31731.65,45132.45,22731.1824

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  1. 1 Includes 3 elections in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot.
  2. 2 Includes 3 elections in which 2 C. I. O. unions were on the ballot.
  3. 3 Includes 32 elections in which 2 unaffiliated unions were on the ballot.
  4. 4 Includes 1 election in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot.
  5. 5 Includes 3 elections in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot; includes 1 election in which 2 unaffiliated unions were on the ballot.
  6. 6 Includes 5 elections in which 2 unaffiliated unions were on the ballot.

62 of 62 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 102. The table has 18 columns: the stub, "Number of elections and pay-roll checks", six columns under "Elections and pay-roll checks won", two under "Eligible voters", and seven under "Valid votes cast" (Total; Number/Percent for each of three union groups; and the tall "Against unions" column at the far right, which sits inside the "Valid votes cast" spanner). Footnote markers 1-6 are raised digits printed immediately BEFORE the figures in the "Number of elections and pay-roll checks" column (e.g. a raised 1 before 1,315); per instruction they are written after the value behind a caret. The marker on the "A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffiliated unions" row (160) is faint and sits low, but is read as 5 on the basis of the footnote sequence and because footnote 5 is the one printed in the right-hand footnote block alongside footnote 6. Empty cells in the body are printed as dashed rules (sometimes one long dash rule running across two or four adjacent columns, e.g. columns 3-6 on the "Unaffiliated unions" row and columns 12-15 on the same row); all are transcribed as "". Arithmetic checks (not corrections - nothing was altered): every data column sums exactly to its printed Total row, and all printed percentages reproduce from the adjacent counts. For example 267,118 + 515,271 + 140,780 + 203,332 = 1,126,501, and the seven group figures in each column sum to the printed total. No misprint was detected. Several row labels wrap over two printed lines with end-of-line hyphenation and have been rejoined: "A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. | O. affiliates", "A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffili- | ated unions", "C. I. O. affiliates-unaffili- | ated unions", and "A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaf- | filiated unions". The internal hyphens joining two union names (e.g. "affiliates-C. I. O.") are part of the label, not line-break hyphens, and have been kept.

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Source page 102 of NLRB FY1943 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1943, p. 102.

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.