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Distribution of cases received during the fiscal year 1947, by industry

printed as Table 5 · source pages 77–78 · nlrb1947_p0077_t0

Stitched from pp. 77–78.

Industrial groupAll casesUnfair labor practice casesRepresentation cases
Industrial groupNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of total
Total14,909100.04,232100.010,677100.0
Manufacturing11,09874.43,18575.27,91374.1
Food and kindred products1,56110.544710.61,11410.4
Tobacco manufactures115.821.594.9
Textile-mill products6414.32115.04304.0
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar material4793.22004.72792.6
Lumber and timber basic products5813.91473.54344.1
Furniture and finished lumber products7635.12365.55274.9
Paper and allied products3432.3761.82672.5
Printing, publishing, and allied industries4483.01252.93233.0
Chemicals and allied products6534.41353.25184.9
Products of petroleum and coal1991.339.91601.5
Rubber products130.938.992.9
Leather and leather products2681.81032.41651.5
Stone, clay, and glass products3522.4761.82762.6
Iron and steel and their products1,0447.02796.67657.2
Nonferrous metals and their products5753.81684.04073.8
Machinery (except electrical)1,2898.63859.19048.5
Electrical machinery5553.71673.93883.6
Manufacturing—Continued
Transportation equipment5533.71593.83943.7
Aircraft and parts107.736.971.7
Automotive3152.1811.92342.2
Ship and boat building and repairing98.732.866.6
Other33.210.223.2
Miscellaneous manufacturing5493.71734.13763.5
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing23.27.216.1
Mining4332.9952.23383.2
Metal mining74.514.360.6
Coal mining1981.336.81621.5
Crude petroleum and natural gas production73.525.648.5
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying88.620.568.6
Construction100.728.772.7
Wholesale trade8946.02425.76526.1
Retail trade5603.81483.54123.9
Finance, insurance, and real estate134.9501.284.8
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities1,2008.03137.48878.3
Highway passenger transportation1501.038.91121.1
Highway freight transportation1621.1491.21131.1
Water transportation2281.5651.51631.5
Warehousing and storage1591.139.91201.1
Other transportation78.520.558.5
Communication2251.5671.61581.5
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services1981.335.81631.5
Services4673.11643.93032.8

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  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. 77. The crop is the first page of the table: it ends after "Electrical machinery" and is followed by the continuation line "See footnotes at end of table." (not transcribed as a footnote, since no footnote text appears on this image; the marker 1 on the stub heading is defined at the end of the table on a later page). Doubtful cells: (a) Total row, "All cases / Percent of total" — printed as "100 0", the decimal point having dropped out of the scan; transcribed as "100.0" to match the other three total-row percentages. (b) Textile-mill products, "Unfair labor practice cases / Percent of total" — the first glyph is degraded and could read 5 or 6; transcribed as "5.0". (c) Stone, clay, and glass products, "Representation cases / Number" — a short stray dash-like mark sits to the left of "276" in the margin of the column; it is scan noise, not a minus sign. Internal consistency check: in every data row the unfair-labor-practice and representation Number cells sum exactly to the All cases Number, and those sum to the Manufacturing and Total lines as printed, which supports the digits transcribed. All percentages agree with the printed counts to the nearest tenth.

p. 78. This is a continuation page (caption reads "—Continued"); the body opens with the section line "Manufacturing—Continued", so the manufacturing detail rows above it are on the previous page. Faint/broken decimal points: in several percent cells the decimal point did not print or printed as a gap, appearing as "1 2" or "1 5". Affected cells, all transcribed with the decimal point restored because the column context and the surrounding digits make the reading unambiguous: "Finance, insurance, and real estate" / Unfair labor practice cases-Percent of total (printed "1 2", given as 1.2); "Highway freight transportation" / Unfair labor practice cases-Percent of total (printed "1 2", given as 1.2); "Water transportation" / All cases-Percent of total (printed "1 5", given as 1.5); "Communication" / Representation cases-Percent of total (printed "1 5", given as 1.5). "Services" / Unfair labor practice cases-Percent of total is printed as ". 3. 9" — there is a stray dot to the left of the figure, most likely a leader-dot or ink artifact rather than part of the value; transcribed as 3.9. The footnote is printed without a comma between "Budget" and "Washington"; transcribed as printed. Internal arithmetic checks pass throughout: for every row, All cases Number = Unfair labor practice Number + Representation Number, and each group's component rows sum to the group line (e.g. Transportation equipment 107+315+98+33 = 553; Mining 74+198+73+88 = 433; Transportation, communication, and other public utilities 150+162+228+159+78+225+198 = 1,200). No misprints detected in the counts.

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Source page 77 of NLRB FY1947 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1947, p. 77.
Source page 78 of NLRB FY1947 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1947, p. 78.

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.