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Union-shop authorization polls — by industry

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Industrial group	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Employees eligible to vote	Total valid votes cast
Industrial group	Total	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — A F L	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — C I O	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — Unaffiliated unions	Union-shop rejected	Employees eligible to vote	Total valid votes cast
Total	46,146	30,747	8,017	6,459	1,223	6,545,001	5,548,982
Manufacturing	30,271	18,032	7,073	4,473	690	3,458,995	4,041,107
Ordnance and accessories	13	8	2	3	0	5,539	5,022
Food and kindred products	6,222	4,851	589	608	177	570,328	486,534
Tobacco manufactures	65	50	6	9	0	14,977	13,295
Textile-mill products	1,548	298	1,023	215	12	391,754	345,073
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material	753	477	247	22	7	218,112	199,855
Lumber and wood products	2,129	1,402	626	23	78	170,927	144,567
Furniture and fixtures	1,131	380	654	65	20	92,181	81,308
Paper and allied products	1,299	1,033	167	64	18	226,265	198,553
Printing, publishing, and allied industries	1,746	1,357	175	173	26	95,029	83,210
Chemicals and allied products	1,514	838	257	112	27	113,524	104,287
Products of petroleum and coal	359	164	123	24	16	66,061	41,419
Rubber products	272	70	185	12	0	138,418	109,624
Leather and leather products	568	308	151	55	8	101,835	89,382
Stone, clay, and glass products	1,361	1,069	176	93	32	210,623	177,802
Primary metal industries	2,008	1,142	642	208	44	799,755	648,343
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)	2,913	1,604	706	545	58	262,627	215,167
Machinery (except electrical)	2,936	769	806	1,362	69	506,889	437,762
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies	1,003	503	190	281	29	294,800	250,047
Transportation equipment	1,168	336	450	345	37	824,095	722,377
Aircraft and parts	137	31	39	58	9	107,872	90,393
Ship and boat building and repairing	211	110	54	39	8	55,924	45,382
Automotive and other transportation equipment	820	195	357	248	20	700,299	636,752
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments	365	138	123	94	10	67,309	61,109
Miscellaneous manufacturing	1,167	718	203	165	25	102,222	88,809
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries	5	4	0	1	0	64	58
Mining	332	160	108	54	10	44,859	36,684
Metal mining	90	12	45	30	3	28,218	23,497
Coal mining	31	4	2	25	0	982	872
Crude petroleum and natural gas production	35	13	17	1	4	6,311	4,620
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying	176	131	34	8	3	9,148	7,560
Construction	466	392	7	46	21	24,795	20,398
Wholesale trade	4,111	3,300	262	291	138	133,866	115,768
Retail trade	3,041	2,557	247	630	197	236,917	207,194
Finance, insurance, and real estate	1,546	1,508	14	16	8	30,882	25,547
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities	4,739	3,712	202	636	189	542,735	459,696
Highway passenger transportation	383	277	12	77	17	44,592	36,279
Highway freight transportation	2,062	1,683	57	291	59	85,572	72,635
Water transportation	181	117	29	27	6	21,376	16,803
Warehousing and storage	811	667	33	82	26	30,648	26,907
Other transportation	124	101	8	12	3	70,520	58,361
Communication	691	555	35	69	32	184,552	162,344
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services	487	327	55	66	39	106,000	133,461
Services	1,035	699	84	164	34	68,825	60,073

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Source page 318 of NLRB FY1952 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1952, p. 318.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.