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Number of decertification elections and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1948

printed as Table 15 · source page 119 · nlrb1948_p0119_t0

Participating unionNumber of electionsElections won by—Eligible votersTotalValid votes cast for—
Participating unionNumber of electionsA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo unionNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo union
Participating unionNumber of electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNo unionNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNo union
Total971414.41717.544.1628,83688.97,8571,26916.22,25628.74185.33,914
A. F. of L. affiliates511325.5383,19688.32,8221,12039.71,702
C. I. O. affiliates371745.9204,41489.83,9622,19355.41,769
Unaffiliated unions8450.041,00685.686141848.5443
A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates11100.000022096.421214970.36329.70

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38 of 38 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 119. No footnotes are printed under this table. Column structure: 19 columns. The two "No union" columns (col 8 and col 18) are single tall headings with no "Percent" sub-column; I have placed them inside the "Elections won by—" and "Valid votes cast for—" spans respectively, which the printed arithmetic confirms (14+17+4+62 = 97 elections; 1,269+2,256+418+3,914 = 7,857 total valid votes). Likewise, under "Eligible voters" the sub-headings "Number" and "Percent casting valid votes" occupy a band that spans the lower two heading levels, so they are repeated in header rows 2 and 3. All printed totals and percentages are internally consistent with the detail rows; no suspected misprints. Row label in row 3: the period after the "O" in "C. I. O. affiliates" is not clearly visible in the scan (it reads "C. I. O affiliates"); I have transcribed it with the period, matching the spelling used in the column heading and in the last row's label. In row 5 the C. I. O. percent cell is printed as "0", not "0.0". Empty cells in the body are printed as dashed leader rules ("-----") and are transcribed as "". A faint stray pen/ink mark sits just left of the "37" in the "C. I. O. affiliates" row (Number of elections column); it is not a digit or footnote marker. Rotated text running vertically along the right edge of the crop is the running head of the facing page bleeding into the scan, not part of this table.

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Source page 119 of NLRB FY1948 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1948, p. 119.

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.