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Industrial distribution of unfair labor practice, representation, and union-authorization cases received during the fiscal year 1949

printed as Table 5 · source page 179 · nlrb1949_p0179_t0

Industrial groupAll casesUnfair labor practice casesRepresentation casesUnion-authorization cases
Industrial groupAll casesCACBCCCDRCRMRDUnion-authorization cases
Total25,8744,154820268727,52147937012,190
Manufacturing15,4822,44131289254,7292342587,394
Food and kindred products3,3924114814283342451,997
Tobacco manufactures429000133116
Textile-mill products62315814301881415231
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials55615527801481310195
Lumber and wood products1,025162111083231710484
Furniture and fixtures58914615501541412243
Paper and allied products6017652120086303
Printing, publishing, and allied industries1,0071162732220115623
Chemicals and allied products78511315713071519308
Products of petroleum and coal317927429621599
Rubber products12828210471346
Leather and leather products3805919309532199
Stone, clay, and glass products604726101791214320
Primary metal industries728941411263512338
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)1,19014917534111819568
Machinery (except electrical)1,43521526434811934653
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies5369410102171712185
Transportation equipment71812630102256817269
Aircraft and parts12322311541239
Ship and boat building and repairing154191391404563
Automotive and other transportation equipment441851400162310167
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments18124300860068
Miscellaneous manufacturing6451421670212127249
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries211000000
Mining2284917907711758
Metal mining46730031113
Coal mining421614503202
Crude petroleum and natural gas production459040115511
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying9517000323142
Construction8602021447236136131256
Wholesale trade2,3972584826163732281,367
Retail trade2,6073457422085890231,195
Finance, insurance, and real estate4372454401124365
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities2,91543214037971370401,474
Highway passenger transportation2565063071127107
Highway freight transportation1,07013635224149148702
Water transportation317696922750298
Warehousing and storage3743111308925233
Other transportation8616320280334
Communication556941141193407206
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services256365121082894
Services94618180912592510381

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  1. 1 Source. Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1945
  2. 2 See appendix B, for definition of types of cases.
  3. 3 Includes 8 UD cases.
  4. 4 Includes 1 UD case
  5. 5 Includes 3 UD cases.

356 of 356 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 179. Ten columns: stub, "All cases", four unfair-labor-practice columns (CA, CB, CC, CD), three representation columns (RC, RM, RD), and "Union-authorization cases". "All cases", the stub heading and "Union-authorization cases^2" are tall headings spanning both heading levels, so they are repeated in each. All footnote markers in the column spanner headings are raised 2s referring to footnote 2 ("See appendix B, for definition of types of cases."); the CD marker is somewhat blotted in the scan and could be read as a 3, but footnote 3 is a value note ("Includes 8 UD cases."), so it is transcribed as CD^2 like its neighbours. The raised markers on values are printed to the LEFT of the number in this table (e.g. "3 12,190" in the Total row, "4 1,997" for Food and kindred products); per instruction they are written after the value behind a caret. Doubtful glyphs, all resolved by arithmetic: the "All cases" cell for "Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies" is preceded by a stray ink dot ("·536"); it is transcribed as 536. The RM cell for "Transportation equipment" is preceded by a stray tilde-like mark ("~ 8"); transcribed as 8. The "Water transportation" row genuinely shows 69 in both CA and CB. Verification: every one of the 44 body rows sums across its eight component columns to its printed "All cases" figure, the nine major-industry rows sum to the printed Total row in every column, and the detail rows sum to their group subtotals (manufacturing details to 15,482; mining details to 228; transportation/communication details to 2,915; the three transportation-equipment details to 718). No internal inconsistency or suspected misprint was found. Footnote 1 begins "Source." with what reads as a period rather than a colon in the scan, and footnote 4 ends without a period; both are transcribed as printed. Nothing appears cut off by the crop.

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Source page 179 of NLRB FY1949 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1949, p. 179.

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.