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Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of valid votes cast during the fiscal year 1944, by industry

printed as Table 13 · source pages 92–93 · nlrb1944_p0092_t0

Stitched from pp. 92–93.

Industrial groupElections and pay-roll checksValid votes castWinner
Industrial groupNumberPercentNumberPercentA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo union
Industrial groupNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
Total4,712100.01,072,594100.01,50031.81,89040.159312.672915.5
Manufacturing3,81080.9960,19789.51,17230.81,64043.045411.954414.3
Food and kindred products2846.025,8372.413447.28429.6155.35117.9
Tobacco manufactures13.315,2691.4323.1969.20.017.7
Textile-mill products1853.958,0615.44825.97942.7168.74222.7
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials1012.117,1791.63029.73938.676.92524.8
Lumber and timber basic products1723.714,0781.35733.27543.695.23118.0
Furniture and finished lumber products1092.311,4011.12523.05954.165.51917.4
Paper and allied products1012.119,7831.85352.51615.82423.887.9
Printing, publishing, and allied industries1032.24,547.45048.51716.51716.51918.5
Chemicals and allied products3116.668,3626.410834.710734.46721.6299.3
Products of petroleum and coal922.013,4061.22729.44447.81516.366.5
Rubber products37.88,432.8616.22670.338.125.4
Leather and leather products691.516,8491.61420.33550.7811.61217.4
Stone, clay, and glass products1012.122,5272.14544.63231.787.91615.8
Iron and steel and their products67814.4138,25712.917025.135852.87310.87711.3
Nonferrous metals and their products1433.035,9833.44531.56344.01913.31611.2
Machinery (except electrical)4469.581,4597.610323.120846.66314.27216.1
Electrical machinery1954.144,9704.24322.010051.32914.92311.8
Transportation equipment59112.6344,07532.118731.624842.07412.58213.9
Aircraft and parts3126.6237,00522.111135.611737.53912.54514.4
Automotive equipment and parts641.413,0591.2914.14062.5812.5710.9
Ship and boat building and repairing1944.187,4528.26131.48342.82311.92713.9
Other21.56,559.6628.6838.1419.0314.3
Miscellaneous manufacturing791.719,7221.82430.44151.911.31316.4
Agriculture and forestry2.1412100.00.00.00.0
Mining2194.621,0842.06429.27032.04018.34520.5
Metal mining831.812,0291.13137.44351.844.856.0
Coal mining471.03,794.4714.90.02655.31429.8
Crude petroleum and natural gas production31.61,454.1825.81445.20.0929.0
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying581.23,807.41831.01322.41017.31729.3
Construction16.32,075.2531.3425.0425.0318.7
Wholesale trade1142.44,074.43429.83934.265.33530.7
Retail trade681.412,0621.12333.82029.423.02333.8
Finance, insurance, and real estate571.210,2271.02238.61729.8915.8915.8
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities3567.656,9355.314841.68022.57320.55515.4
Highway passenger transportation24.51,515.11562.528.328.3520.9
Highway freight transportation25.5944.11352.028.028.0832.0
Water transportation26.63,670.4726.91142.3415.4415.4
Warehousing and storage35.83,413.31131.41542.9411.4514.3
Other transportation29.63,322.3413.81551.726.9827.6
Communication551.218,6751.72443.647.32240.059.1
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary service1623.425,3962.47445.73119.13722.82012.4
Services701.55,899.53042.92028.657.11521.4

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  1. 1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1941.
  2. 2 Less than 0.1 percent.

258 of 258 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 92 of NLRB FY1944 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1944, p. 92.
Source page 93 of NLRB FY1944 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1944, p. 93.

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.