NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1944 › Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of valid votes cast during the fiscal year 1944, by industry
Stitched from pp. 92–93.
| Industrial group | Elections and pay-roll checks | Valid votes cast | Winner | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial group | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | No union | ||||
| Industrial group | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total | 4,712 | 100.0 | 1,072,594 | 100.0 | 1,500 | 31.8 | 1,890 | 40.1 | 593 | 12.6 | 729 | 15.5 |
| Manufacturing | 3,810 | 80.9 | 960,197 | 89.5 | 1,172 | 30.8 | 1,640 | 43.0 | 454 | 11.9 | 544 | 14.3 |
| Food and kindred products | 284 | 6.0 | 25,837 | 2.4 | 134 | 47.2 | 84 | 29.6 | 15 | 5.3 | 51 | 17.9 |
| Tobacco manufactures | 13 | .3 | 15,269 | 1.4 | 3 | 23.1 | 9 | 69.2 | 0 | .0 | 1 | 7.7 |
| Textile-mill products | 185 | 3.9 | 58,061 | 5.4 | 48 | 25.9 | 79 | 42.7 | 16 | 8.7 | 42 | 22.7 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials | 101 | 2.1 | 17,179 | 1.6 | 30 | 29.7 | 39 | 38.6 | 7 | 6.9 | 25 | 24.8 |
| Lumber and timber basic products | 172 | 3.7 | 14,078 | 1.3 | 57 | 33.2 | 75 | 43.6 | 9 | 5.2 | 31 | 18.0 |
| Furniture and finished lumber products | 109 | 2.3 | 11,401 | 1.1 | 25 | 23.0 | 59 | 54.1 | 6 | 5.5 | 19 | 17.4 |
| Paper and allied products | 101 | 2.1 | 19,783 | 1.8 | 53 | 52.5 | 16 | 15.8 | 24 | 23.8 | 8 | 7.9 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 103 | 2.2 | 4,547 | .4 | 50 | 48.5 | 17 | 16.5 | 17 | 16.5 | 19 | 18.5 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 311 | 6.6 | 68,362 | 6.4 | 108 | 34.7 | 107 | 34.4 | 67 | 21.6 | 29 | 9.3 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 92 | 2.0 | 13,406 | 1.2 | 27 | 29.4 | 44 | 47.8 | 15 | 16.3 | 6 | 6.5 |
| Rubber products | 37 | .8 | 8,432 | .8 | 6 | 16.2 | 26 | 70.3 | 3 | 8.1 | 2 | 5.4 |
| Leather and leather products | 69 | 1.5 | 16,849 | 1.6 | 14 | 20.3 | 35 | 50.7 | 8 | 11.6 | 12 | 17.4 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 101 | 2.1 | 22,527 | 2.1 | 45 | 44.6 | 32 | 31.7 | 8 | 7.9 | 16 | 15.8 |
| Iron and steel and their products | 678 | 14.4 | 138,257 | 12.9 | 170 | 25.1 | 358 | 52.8 | 73 | 10.8 | 77 | 11.3 |
| Nonferrous metals and their products | 143 | 3.0 | 35,983 | 3.4 | 45 | 31.5 | 63 | 44.0 | 19 | 13.3 | 16 | 11.2 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 446 | 9.5 | 81,459 | 7.6 | 103 | 23.1 | 208 | 46.6 | 63 | 14.2 | 72 | 16.1 |
| Electrical machinery | 195 | 4.1 | 44,970 | 4.2 | 43 | 22.0 | 100 | 51.3 | 29 | 14.9 | 23 | 11.8 |
| Transportation equipment | 591 | 12.6 | 344,075 | 32.1 | 187 | 31.6 | 248 | 42.0 | 74 | 12.5 | 82 | 13.9 |
| Aircraft and parts | 312 | 6.6 | 237,005 | 22.1 | 111 | 35.6 | 117 | 37.5 | 39 | 12.5 | 45 | 14.4 |
| Automotive equipment and parts | 64 | 1.4 | 13,059 | 1.2 | 9 | 14.1 | 40 | 62.5 | 8 | 12.5 | 7 | 10.9 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 194 | 4.1 | 87,452 | 8.2 | 61 | 31.4 | 83 | 42.8 | 23 | 11.9 | 27 | 13.9 |
| Other | 21 | .5 | 6,559 | .6 | 6 | 28.6 | 8 | 38.1 | 4 | 19.0 | 3 | 14.3 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 79 | 1.7 | 19,722 | 1.8 | 24 | 30.4 | 41 | 51.9 | 1 | 1.3 | 13 | 16.4 |
| Agriculture and forestry | 2 | .1 | 41 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | .0 | 0 | .0 | 0 | .0 | |
| Mining | 219 | 4.6 | 21,084 | 2.0 | 64 | 29.2 | 70 | 32.0 | 40 | 18.3 | 45 | 20.5 |
| Metal mining | 83 | 1.8 | 12,029 | 1.1 | 31 | 37.4 | 43 | 51.8 | 4 | 4.8 | 5 | 6.0 |
| Coal mining | 47 | 1.0 | 3,794 | .4 | 7 | 14.9 | 0 | .0 | 26 | 55.3 | 14 | 29.8 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 31 | .6 | 1,454 | .1 | 8 | 25.8 | 14 | 45.2 | 0 | .0 | 9 | 29.0 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 58 | 1.2 | 3,807 | .4 | 18 | 31.0 | 13 | 22.4 | 10 | 17.3 | 17 | 29.3 |
| Construction | 16 | .3 | 2,075 | .2 | 5 | 31.3 | 4 | 25.0 | 4 | 25.0 | 3 | 18.7 |
| Wholesale trade | 114 | 2.4 | 4,074 | .4 | 34 | 29.8 | 39 | 34.2 | 6 | 5.3 | 35 | 30.7 |
| Retail trade | 68 | 1.4 | 12,062 | 1.1 | 23 | 33.8 | 20 | 29.4 | 2 | 3.0 | 23 | 33.8 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 57 | 1.2 | 10,227 | 1.0 | 22 | 38.6 | 17 | 29.8 | 9 | 15.8 | 9 | 15.8 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 356 | 7.6 | 56,935 | 5.3 | 148 | 41.6 | 80 | 22.5 | 73 | 20.5 | 55 | 15.4 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 24 | .5 | 1,515 | .1 | 15 | 62.5 | 2 | 8.3 | 2 | 8.3 | 5 | 20.9 |
| Highway freight transportation | 25 | .5 | 944 | .1 | 13 | 52.0 | 2 | 8.0 | 2 | 8.0 | 8 | 32.0 |
| Water transportation | 26 | .6 | 3,670 | .4 | 7 | 26.9 | 11 | 42.3 | 4 | 15.4 | 4 | 15.4 |
| Warehousing and storage | 35 | .8 | 3,413 | .3 | 11 | 31.4 | 15 | 42.9 | 4 | 11.4 | 5 | 14.3 |
| Other transportation | 29 | .6 | 3,322 | .3 | 4 | 13.8 | 15 | 51.7 | 2 | 6.9 | 8 | 27.6 |
| Communication | 55 | 1.2 | 18,675 | 1.7 | 24 | 43.6 | 4 | 7.3 | 22 | 40.0 | 5 | 9.1 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary service | 162 | 3.4 | 25,396 | 2.4 | 74 | 45.7 | 31 | 19.1 | 37 | 22.8 | 20 | 12.4 |
| Services | 70 | 1.5 | 5,899 | .5 | 30 | 42.9 | 20 | 28.6 | 5 | 7.1 | 15 | 21.4 |
258 of 258 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 92. 13 columns: stub plus Number/Percent pairs for "Elections and pay-roll checks", "Valid votes cast", and the four "Winner" categories (A. F. of L. affiliates, C. I. O. affiliates, Unaffiliated unions, No union). The crop is cut off at the bottom: the body ends with "Agriculture and forestry" with no total/closing rule after it, so the table almost certainly continues (non-manufacturing groups) beyond this image. No footnote text is printed inside the crop, although markers are used on the page: a raised 1 on the stub heading "Industrial group" and a raised 2 in the Agriculture and forestry row; the footnote list itself is below the crop, hence `footnotes` is empty. "Agriculture and forestry", column "Valid votes cast / Percent": the cell holds a parenthesized raised 2 — a footnote reference standing in place of a value (41 of 1,072,594 votes rounds below 0.05 percent) — transcribed as `(^2)`. "Manufacturing", column "Valid votes cast / Percent": the decimal point is broken in the scan and reads like a colon ("89:5"); transcribed as 89.5, which is consistent with 960,197/1,072,594. "Machinery (except electrical)", column "Elections and pay-roll checks / Number": a small ink speck sits just left of the figure in the gutter; it is not a digit or a marker, and the value is 446. Arithmetic check (not applied to any cell, only used to verify the reading): the four Winner "Number" columns sum exactly to the "Elections and pay-roll checks / Number" value in every row, the manufacturing subgroups sum to 3,810, and Manufacturing plus Agriculture-and-forestry are consistent with the printed Total of 4,712 given that further groups follow below the crop. No printed value appeared to be a misprint.
p. 93. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has a stub plus 12 data columns (six count/percent pairs), as fixed by the column rules; the first pair is a case count and its percent, the second pair an employee count and its percent, and the remaining four pairs are a count and percent each. The crop begins mid-table (the rows above "Mining" are on the preceding page) and the table ends on this page with "Services"; the caption and any earlier body rows are cut off above. Decimal values under 1 are printed without a leading zero (".4", ".1", ".0"); transcribed as printed. "Coal mining" and "Crude petroleum and natural gas production" each contain a printed count of 0 with a matching ".0" percent, transcribed as "0" and ".0". Row indentation (not representable in the grid): "Mining", "Construction", "Wholesale trade", "Retail trade", "Finance, insurance, and real estate", "Transportation, communication, and other public utilities" and "Services" are flush-left major-industry lines; the four mining sub-industries and the seven transportation/utility sub-industries are indented under their group line. The second footnote's superscript marker is faint and partly broken in the scan; read as a raised 2 from context (footnote 1 is the source note), but the glyph itself is not crisp. No footnote markers are attached to any value or label within this crop. Arithmetic checks all pass as printed: in every row the last four count columns sum to the row's case total (e.g. Mining 64+70+40+45=219; Transportation 148+80+73+55=356), the four mining sub-rows' employee counts sum to 21,084, and the seven transportation sub-rows' sum to 56,935 (and their case counts to 356). No suspected misprints.
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.