NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1951 › Industrial distribution of unfair labor practice, representation, and union-shop authorization cases received during fiscal year 1951
| Industrial group | All cases | Unfair labor practice cases | Representation cases | Union shop authorization cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial group | All cases | CA | CB | CC | CD | RC | RM | RD | Union shop authorization cases |
| Total | 22,298 | 4,164 | 858 | 167 | 72 | 9,460 | 448 | 339 | 6,790 |
| Manufacturing | 14,708 | 2,604 | 411 | 71 | 10 | 6,306 | 287 | 216 | 4,803 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Food and kindred products | 2,165 | 362 | 75 | 23 | 0 | 959 | 69 | 38 | 639 |
| Tobacco manufactures | 51 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| Textile-mill products | 641 | 184 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 250 | 26 | 12 | 150 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials | 851 | 188 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 405 | 21 | 6 | 189 |
| Lumber and wood products | 855 | 156 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 343 | 23 | 11 | 303 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 617 | 189 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 230 | 6 | 8 | 158 |
| Paper and allied products | 382 | 56 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 205 | 4 | 7 | 103 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 632 | 103 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 278 | 7 | 7 | 215 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 687 | 96 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 366 | 10 | 19 | 174 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 250 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 137 | 3 | 6 | 44 |
| Rubber products | 168 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 67 | 5 | 3 | 63 |
| Leather and leather products | 256 | 58 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 11 | 1 | 86 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 547 | 102 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 217 | 12 | 7 | 190 |
| Primary metal industries | 987 | 106 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 371 | 8 | 16 | 464 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 1,509 | 245 | 31 | 5 | 3 | 609 | 15 | 15 | 586 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 1,503 | 219 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 656 | 13 | 26 | 559 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supples | 852 | 170 | 34 | 3 | 1 | 348 | 9 | 7 | 280 |
| Transportation equipment | 763 | 111 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 334 | 11 | 14 | 264 |
| Aircraft and parts | 156 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 3 | 2 | 29 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 116 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 43 | 4 | 1 | 43 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 491 | 61 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 207 | 4 | 11 | 192 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 268 | 41 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 126 | 6 | 4 | 76 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 707 | 132 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 285 | 24 | 8 | 239 |
| Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mining | 302 | 70 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 80 | 13 | 6 | 98 |
| Metal mining | 131 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| Coal mining | 59 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nonmetalic mining and quarrying | 87 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 4 | 21 |
| Construction | 703 | 164 | 184 | 26 | 42 | 231 | 6 | 0 | 50 |
| Wholesale trade | 1,597 | 252 | 42 | 17 | 0 | 757 | 49 | 28 | 452 |
| Retail trade | 1,999 | 366 | 44 | 9 | 1 | 951 | 43 | 38 | 547 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 156 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 4 | 9 | 45 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 2,158 | 534 | 110 | 32 | 16 | 767 | 31 | 28 | 640 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 219 | 73 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 5 | 6 | 47 |
| Highway freight transportation | 551 | 101 | 27 | 19 | 9 | 213 | 8 | 3 | 171 |
| Water transportation | 243 | 103 | 50 | 7 | 4 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 30 |
| Warehousing and storage | 301 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 6 | 1 | 187 |
| Other transportation | 47 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| Communication | 524 | 175 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 200 | 6 | 8 | 122 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 273 | 53 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 131 | 4 | 6 | 72 |
| Services | 675 | 141 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 308 | 15 | 14 | 155 |
353 of 353 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
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.
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.