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Industrial distribution of unfair labor practice, representation, and union-shop authorization cases received during fiscal year 1950

printed as Table 5 · source page 237 · nlrb1950_p0237_t0

Industrial groupAll casesUnfair labor practice casesRepresentation casesUnion-shop authorization cases
Industrial groupAll casesCACBCCCDRCRMRDUnion-shop authorization cases
Total21,6324,472996275668,2066993746,544
Manufacturing13,4982,76041796125,1884972654,263
Ordnance and accessories900009000
Food and kindred products2,380399933958846229869
Tobacco manufactures38810023006
Textile-mill products56517018211801917158
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials6202253691170249146
Lumber and wood products68014814712531318226
Furniture and fixtures57113418401841216203
Paper and allied products38562130017275126
Printing, publishing, and allied industries6341273160244710209
Chemicals and allied products64010712212892022187
Products of petroleum and coal25070103010512743
Rubber products14440500641331
Leather and leather products30779120110061108
Stone, clay, and glass products6341071471218717263
Primary metal industries792139191130689309
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)1,18721232505022617393
Machinery (except electrical)1,23825127204873730404
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies926139122039219416171
Transportation equipment6081101830268722180
Aircraft and parts10324500442226
Ship and boat building and repairing154126101031328
Automotive and other transportation equipment35174720121417126
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments222324001007871
Miscellaneous manufacturing6682012840238289160
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries830102200
Mining245634840756841
Metal mining397210160112
Coal mining893042307034
Crude petroleum and natural gas production1770006031
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying10019400466124
Construction77424723648371383164
Wholesale trade1,886288342638475231605
Retail trade2,170406792619377523623
Finance, insurance, and real estate10539300374121
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities2,2174791195997445439714
Highway passenger transportation2927814001207667
Highway freight transportation68010842352197213272
Water transportation2387040143657336
Warehousing and storage2502711729065102
Other transportation6520210300012
Communication459137711151108144
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services233393119131481
Services7291876015423866213

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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 p. 217 for definitions of types of cases.
  3. 3 Includes 7 UD cases
  4. 4 Includes 4 UD cases.
  5. 5 Includes 1 UD case.
  6. 6 Includes 2 UD cases.

353 of 353 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 237. Ten columns: stub, All cases, CA/CB/CC/CD under "Unfair labor practice cases", RC/RM/RD under "Representation cases", and "Union-shop authorization cases". Every value column was checked against its printed totals and all reconcile exactly: the nine major groups (Manufacturing, Agriculture, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance, Transportation, Services) sum to the Total row in all nine columns; the 21 manufacturing detail lines sum to the Manufacturing row; the three transportation-equipment detail lines sum to 608/110/18/3/0/268/7/22/180; the four mining detail lines sum to the Mining row; and the seven transportation/communication detail lines sum to the 2,217 row. Note that "Transportation equipment", "Mining" and "Transportation, communication, and other public utilities" are subtotal rows whose own detail lines follow them (and whose values are already inside Manufacturing or the group total); they are transcribed as printed, in order. Possible misprint in the footnote markers on the Union-shop column: the Total row carries a raised 4 ("Includes 4 UD cases") and the Manufacturing row a raised 3 ("Includes 7 UD cases"). Both the usual order-of-appearance footnote numbering and the arithmetic suggest these two markers are swapped in the original: the marked manufacturing detail lines carry 1+1+2 = 4 UD cases, while the whole table carries 4 (manufacturing) + 1 (transportation) + 2 (retail trade) = 7. Transcribed exactly as printed; the two superscripts are small but legible on a second look. Doubtful/unusual cells: "Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies", column RM = 194 looks out of line with neighbouring rows (next largest is 37), but the RM column sums to the printed Manufacturing total of 497 only with 194, so it is read as printed. Footnote 1 is printed "Source Standard Industrial Classification" — the colon after "Source" appears to be lost in the scan; "U. S." is rendered in the scan with comma-like marks ("U, S,"), transcribed with periods. Footnote 2's terminal period and footnote 3's missing terminal period are as printed. Row labels broken by an end-of-line hyphen were rejoined: "re-pairing" -> "repairing", "transporta-tion" -> "transportation", "control-ling" -> "controlling", "pro-duction" -> "production", "sani-tary" -> "sanitary". The last column heading is printed stacked as "Union- shop authori- zation cases" and is joined to "Union-shop authorization cases" (the hyphen in "Union-shop" is a real compound hyphen, as in the caption).

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Source page 237 of NLRB FY1950 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1950, p. 237.

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.