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Types of union-shop authorization polls conducted, August 22, 1947–October 22, 1951

source page 317 · nlrb1952_p0317_t1

Fiscal yearTotal pollsType of poll
Fiscal yearTotal pollsConsentStipulatedRegional director directedBoard ordered
Total46,14643,2243602,53428
1948 (Aug. 22, 1947-June 30, 1948)17,95817,177697111
194915,07414,3575265411
19505,5895,102444385
19515,9645,21715957810
1952 (July 1, 1951-Oct. 22, 1951)1,5611,371361531

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Reader’s notes

p. 317. Six printed columns: stub "Fiscal year", a tall single "Total polls" heading repeated across both header levels, and four columns under the spanner "Type of poll". No footnotes are printed under the table. All cells are legible and the arithmetic is internally consistent, which supports the digit readings: each year's four type-of-poll figures sum to its "Total polls" (e.g. 17,177+69+711+1 = 17,958), the four type columns sum to 46,146 in the "Total" row, and the five fiscal-year rows sum to 46,146 in every column. The date ranges in the 1948 and 1952 row labels are printed with en-dashes ("1947–June", "1951–Oct."); they are transcribed here with plain hyphens. A stray ink mark sits above the "Board ordered" column between the Total row and the double rule, and another below the "1952" row label; both are page speckle, not digits or footnote markers. A short tick mark appears in the upper-left heading cell above "Fiscal year" — also stray ink, with no accompanying footnote text.

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Source page 317 of NLRB FY1952 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1952, p. 317.

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.