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Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1944

printed as Table 11 · source page 89 · nlrb1944_p0089_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
Total4,7121,50031.81,89040.159312.61,322,22581.11,072,594199,98918.6445,52841.5183,06617.1244,011
A. F. of L. affiliates1,4361,16180.8180,72879.6143,85195,44166.348,410
C. I. O. affiliates1,7561,45582.9453,52784.3382,319242,44663.4139,873
Unaffiliated unions46036078.3104,36972.575,63954,63572.221,004
A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates55123743.028050.8247,65278.7195,02276,99939.5107,03454.910,989
A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffiliated unions1869551.18043.059,75084.550,47523,44346.423,43646.43,596
C. I. O. affiliates-unaffiliated unions26314956.710841.1213,09581.5173,58882,19847.479,93846.111,452
Unaffiliated-unaffiliated3636100.016,07783.913,49113,16997.6322
A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated unions24729.2625.0937.547,02781.238,2094,10610.713,85036.211,88831.18,365

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  1. 1 Includes 7 elections in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot.
  2. 2 Includes 14 elections in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot; 1 election in which 2 C. I. O. unions were on the ballot.
  3. 3 Includes 4 elections in which 2 A. F. of L. unions were on the ballot; 3 elections in which 2 unaffiliated unions were on the ballot.
  4. 4 Includes 4 elections in which 2 unaffiliated unions were on the ballot.
  5. 5 Includes 1 election in which 2 C. I. O. unions were on the ballot.

68 of 68 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 89. 18 columns. The "Against unions" column sits under the "Valid votes cast" spanner: the four components (For A. F. of L., For C. I. O., For unaffiliated, Against) sum exactly to the "Total" valid-votes column in every row, confirming that grouping and the column assignments. All printed figures reconcile: every numeric column sums down to the "Total" row, and each percent matches its base (e.g. 1,161/1,436 = 80.8). No apparent misprints. The Total row's "For C. I. O. affiliates / Number" cell carries a stray ink speck immediately to its left in the scan; the value is 445,528 (verified by the column sum 242,446 + 107,034 + 82,198 + 13,850 = 445,528 and by the row sum to 1,072,594), and the speck is scanning dirt, not a footnote marker or digit. The superscript footnote markers are small and partly broken in the scan; they are read as 1-5 in order (row "A. F. of L. affiliates" = 1, "...-C. I. O. affiliates" = 2, "...-unaffiliated unions" = 3, "C. I. O. affiliates-unaffiliated unions" = 4, "A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated unions" = 5), matching the five footnotes printed in two columns below the table (1-2 at left, 3-5 at right). Wrapped row labels were joined and end-of-line hyphens repaired ("affili-/ates" to "affiliates"); the same was done in the headings ("Num-/ber" to "Number", "Per-/cent" to "Percent", "unaffili-/ated" to "unaffiliated"). The hyphen in "pay-roll" is a real hyphen and was kept. Dash rules ("------") in empty cells were transcribed as empty strings.

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Source page 89 of NLRB FY1944 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1944, p. 89.

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.