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Industrial distribution of unfair labor practice, representation, and union-shop authorization cases received during fiscal year 1951

printed as Table 5 · source page 310 · nlrb1951_p0310_t0

Industrial groupAll casesUnfair labor practice casesRepresentation casesUnion shop authorization cases
Industrial groupAll casesCACBCCCDRCRMRDUnion shop authorization cases
Total22,2984,164858167729,4604483396,790
Manufacturing14,7082,60441171106,3062872164,803
Ordnance and accessories1720009006
Food and kindred products2,165362752309596938639
Tobacco manufactures518220194115
Textile-mill products64118417112502612150
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials8511883750405216189
Lumber and wood products85515617203432311303
Furniture and fixtures617189242023068158
Paper and allied products3825661020547103
Printing, publishing, and allied industries632103193027877215
Chemicals and allied products6879614713661019174
Products of petroleum and coal250526111373644
Rubber products16824510675363
Leather and leather products256588009211186
Stone, clay, and glass products5471021351217127190
Primary metal industries9871061741371816464
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)1,50924531536091515586
Machinery (except electrical)1,50321929106561326559
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supples852170343134897280
Transportation equipment76311126213341114264
Aircraft and parts15634400843229
Ship and boat building and repairing11616621434143
Automotive and other transportation equipment491611600207411192
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments2684114101266476
Miscellaneous manufacturing7071321720285248239
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries000000000
Mining30270241018013698
Metal mining13132000290070
Coal mining591718912525
Crude petroleum and natural gas production25600017002
Nonmetalic mining and quarrying8715610328421
Construction70316418426422316050
Wholesale trade1,597252421707574928452
Retail trade1,99936644919514338547
Finance, insurance, and real estate15633401604945
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities2,15853411032167673128640
Highway passenger transportation219731000785647
Highway freight transportation5511012719921383171
Water transportation2431035074472030
Warehousing and storage301222118161187
Other transportation477440170411
Communication524175121020068122
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services273535021314672
Services67514139213081514155

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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. 290 for definitions of types of cases.
  3. 3 The union-shop authorization poll was abolished by Public Law 189, approved by the President Oct. 22, 1951. However, the law still provides for deauthorization polls when appropriate.
  4. 4 Includes 8 UD cases.
  5. 5 Includes 1 UD case.
  6. 6 Includes 3 UD cases.

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

Reader’s notes

p. 310. Ten columns: stub, All cases, CA/CB/CC/CD under "Unfair labor practice cases", RC/RM/RD under "Representation cases", and the tall "Union shop authorization cases" column. Arithmetic checks (not used to alter any cell): every data row's eight case-type columns sum exactly to its "All cases" figure; the nine division lines sum to the Total row; the manufacturing sub-lines sum to Manufacturing; the three transportation-equipment sub-lines sum to 763; the four mining sub-lines sum to 302; the seven transportation/communication sub-lines sum to 2,158. No internal inconsistency found. Doubtful / apparent misprints in the source, transcribed as printed: - Row "Electrical machinery, equipment, and supples": the last word is printed "supples" (evidently a misprint for "supplies"). - Row "Nonmetalic mining and quarrying": printed with a single "l" ("Nonmetalic"). - Row label read as "Other transportation": the scan is degraded and the word could be read as "Order"; "Other" is the reading consistent with the Standard Industrial Classification list used here, but the cell is uncertain. Its values are unambiguous. - The marker digits in the union-shop column (4, 5, 6) are raised digits printed to the left of the value; they are recorded after the number behind a caret (e.g. Total = 6,790^4). - "Primary metal industries", CC column: a stray ink dot sits just left of the 4; the printed value is 4. - Footnote 1 "Source" and footnote 2 "p" are followed by punctuation that is faint in the scan; rendered as "Source:" and "p." respectively. - The stub heading "Industrial group 1" is followed by a stray period/mark to its right, omitted. The body ends with "Services"; no continuation line is printed on this crop.

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Source page 310 of NLRB FY1951 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1951, p. 310.

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.