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Elections and cross checks conducted during the fiscal years 1936-47, by affiliation of winning union

printed as Table 10 · source page 97 · nlrb1947_p0097_t2

Fiscal yearNumber of elections and cross checksElections and cross checks won by—Valid votes cast for—
Fiscal yearNumber of elections and cross checksA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo unionA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliates unionAgainst union
Total, 1936-4736,96912,35313,8373,9206,859[2][2]1,050,2671,531,301
1936311849[2][2]1,5931,410
1937265981232915[2][2]28,94021,707
19381,152263553129207[2][2]49,48161,117
193974626226052172[2][2]16,38939,183
19401,192386407128271[2][2]64,62596,513
19412,568926991210441181,009335,61973,293140,012
19424,2121,5221,723391576206,442560,815127,834171,946
19434,1531,3981,766416573267,118515,271140,780203,382
19444,7121,5001,890593729199,989445,528183,066244,011
19454,9191,6201,898560841215,453350,295140,821187,189
19465,5892,0041,9584841,143175,332263,64190,874168,965
19476,9202,1962,1388601,726208,524288,381124,827183,742
July 1-Aug. 21, 19475101601306415617,31620,9287,74412,174

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  1. 1 Including the period July 1-Aug. 21, 1947.
  2. 2 Data unavailable.

83 of 113 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Total, 1936-47^1', column 10: prints 1,531,301, rows '1936' to 'July 1-Aug. 21, 1947' add to 1,531,351.

Reader’s notes

p. 97. Ten columns. "Fiscal year" and "Number of elections and cross checks" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels; "Elections and cross checks won by—" spans columns 2-5 and "Valid votes cast for—" spans columns 6-9. The cells printed as a parenthesised raised 2 (the 1936-1940 rows and the total row, in the two "Valid votes cast for—" A. F. of L. and C. I. O. columns) are reference marks to footnote 2 and are the entire cell content; they are transcribed as "(2)". 1936, column "C. I. O. affiliates" (elections won) is a dash rule in the image, transcribed as "". Doubtful cell: 1943, "A. F. of L. affiliates" (elections won). The glyph is ambiguous between 6 and 8 in this 1-bit scan; I read it as 1,398 because that is the only single-cell reading consistent with both the printed row total (4,153 = 1,398+1,766+416+573) and the printed column total (12,353). If the intended digit were 6 both printed totals would have to be wrong. Every other row and every other column foots exactly to the printed totals. Suspected misprint or misread in the "Against union" column: the twelve fiscal-year rows plus the July 1-Aug. 21, 1947 row sum to 1,531,351, while the total row prints 1,531,301, a difference of 50. I could not identify which cell is at fault (a tens digit read as 3 where 8 is printed, or a 5 read as 0 in the total itself), so all values are transcribed as read. Heading doubt: column 8's heading under "Valid votes cast for—" is set over three lines with an end-of-line hyphen and prints as "Unaffil-/iates/union"; I joined it to "Unaffiliates union". It may be intended as "Unaffiliated union", matching "Unaffiliated unions" in column 4, but I transcribed the characters as they appear. A printer's signature line "766309—48——7" appears below the footnotes at the bottom left of the crop; it is not part of the table and is omitted.

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Source page 97 of NLRB FY1947 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1947, p. 97.

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.