NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1946 › Distribution of cases received during the fiscal year 1946, by industry
Distribution of cases received during the fiscal year 1946, by industry
| Industrial group | All cases | Unfair labor practice cases | Representation cases | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial group | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total |
| Total | 12,260 | 100.0 | 3,815 | 100.0 | 8,445 | 100.0 |
| Manufacturing | 9,227 | 75.3 | 2,918 | 76.5 | 6,309 | 74.7 |
| Food and kindred products | 1,298 | 10.6 | 392 | 10.3 | 906 | 10.7 |
| Tobacco manufactures | 40 | 0.3 | 14 | 0.4 | 26 | 0.3 |
| Textile-mill products | 503 | 4.1 | 184 | 4.8 | 319 | 3.8 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials | 359 | 2.9 | 172 | 4.5 | 187 | 2.2 |
| Lumber and timber basic products | 353 | 2.9 | 78 | 2.0 | 275 | 3.3 |
| Furniture and finished lumber products | 439 | 3.6 | 156 | 4.1 | 283 | 3.4 |
| Paper and allied products | 292 | 2.4 | 75 | 2.0 | 217 | 2.6 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 253 | 2.1 | 85 | 2.2 | 168 | 2.0 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 568 | 4.6 | 133 | 3.5 | 435 | 5.2 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 185 | 1.5 | 40 | 1.0 | 145 | 1.7 |
| Rubber products | 125 | 1.0 | 40 | 1.0 | 85 | 1.0 |
| Leather and leather products | 237 | 1.9 | 81 | 2.1 | 156 | 1.8 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 313 | 2.6 | 86 | 2.3 | 227 | 2.7 |
| Iron and steel and their products | 1,029 | 8.4 | 328 | 8.6 | 701 | 8.3 |
| Nonferrous metals and their products | 466 | 3.8 | 141 | 3.7 | 325 | 3.8 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 1,251 | 10.2 | 399 | 10.5 | 852 | 10.1 |
| Electrical machinery | 548 | 4.5 | 181 | 4.8 | 367 | 4.3 |
| Transportation equipment | 542 | 4.4 | 192 | 5.0 | 350 | 4.1 |
| Aircraft and parts | 148 | 1.2 | 59 | 1.5 | 89 | 1.1 |
| Automotive | 224 | 1.8 | 77 | 2.0 | 147 | 1.7 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 127 | 1.0 | 50 | 1.3 | 77 | 0.9 |
| Other | 43 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.2 | 37 | 0.4 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 426 | 3.5 | 141 | 3.7 | 285 | 3.4 |
| Agriculture, forestry, and fishing | 8 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.1 |
| Mining | 484 | 3.9 | 126 | 3.3 | 358 | 4.2 |
| Metal mining | 110 | 0.9 | 34 | 0.9 | 76 | 0.9 |
| Coal mining | 185 | 1.5 | 43 | 1.1 | 142 | 1.7 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 113 | 0.9 | 28 | 0.7 | 85 | 1.0 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 76 | 0.6 | 21 | 0.6 | 55 | 0.6 |
| Construction | 95 | 0.8 | 16 | 0.4 | 79 | 0.9 |
| Wholesale trade | 434 | 3.5 | 131 | 3.4 | 303 | 3.6 |
| Retail trade | 401 | 3.3 | 108 | 2.8 | 293 | 3.5 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 107 | 0.9 | 34 | 0.9 | 73 | 0.9 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 1,061 | 8.6 | 300 | 7.9 | 761 | 9.0 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 126 | 1.0 | 41 | 1.1 | 85 | 1.0 |
| Highway freight transportation | 212 | 1.7 | 65 | 1.7 | 147 | 1.7 |
| Water transportation | 161 | 1.3 | 29 | 0.8 | 132 | 1.6 |
| Warehousing and storage | 140 | 1.1 | 44 | 1.2 | 96 | 1.1 |
| Other transportation | 69 | 0.6 | 16 | 0.4 | 53 | 0.6 |
| Communication | 178 | 1.5 | 62 | 1.6 | 116 | 1.4 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 175 | 1.4 | 43 | 1.1 | 132 | 1.6 |
| Services | 443 | 3.6 | 178 | 4.7 | 265 | 3.1 |
- 1 Source. Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1941.
132 of 132 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 113. Decimal points: in the six percent columns many decimal points failed to print/scan, so cells appear as e.g. "100 0", "75 3", "10 6". Every one of these is a one-decimal percentage (neighbouring cells in the same columns show the point clearly, e.g. "4.1", "2.6", "1.0"), so they are transcribed with a decimal point. No digits were changed. Doubtful cell: "Electrical machinery", Unfair labor practice cases / Percent of total. The glyph reads as "4 8" (i.e. 4.8), but 181 of 3,815 is 4.74 percent, which would round to 4.7; the 7/8 distinction is marginal at this scan quality. Transcribed as printed (4.8) without correction. All other column sums and Number = ULP + Representation checks are internally consistent with the printed figures. The footnote begins "1 Source." with what appears to be a period rather than a colon after "Source"; transcribed as it appears. The table has four indentation levels in the stub (Total; major divisions such as Manufacturing and Mining; their component industries; and sub-items under Transportation equipment). Indentation is not preserved in the grid, so e.g. "Aircraft and parts" through "Other" are sub-items of "Transportation equipment", and "Transportation equipment" and "Miscellaneous manufacturing" are components of "Manufacturing". No row in this table is a label-only section line; every row carries values.
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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.