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Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1953

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Industrial group	Number of elections					Eligible voters	Valid votes cast
Industrial group	Total	In which representation rights were won by—			In which no representative was chosen	Eligible voters	Valid votes cast
Industrial group	Total	A. F. L. affiliates	C. I. O. affiliates	Unaffiliated unions	In which no representative was chosen	Eligible voters	Valid votes cast
Total	6,050	2,750	1,114	486	1,700	737,998	639,739
Manufacturing	4,129	1,765	876	366	1,122	612,252	537,487
Ordnance and accessories	62	44	7	8	3	11,856	9,360
Food and kindred products	613	300	101	41	171	56,459	48,715
Tobacco manufactures	9	1	5	1	2	3,557	3,199
Textile mill products	165	65	32	17	51	78,604	67,554
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material	106	35	31	5	35	15,006	13,587
Lumber and wood products	210	88	59	6	57	22,545	18,850
Furniture and fixtures	144	52	36	11	45	11,826	10,583
Paper and allied products	158	84	20	9	45	19,428	16,482
Printing, publishing, and allied industries	164	87	28	16	33	6,387	5,791
Chemicals and allied products	293	132	57	19	85	39,023	35,317
Products of petroleum and coal	81	27	21	8	25	3,872	3,375
Rubber products	40	17	8	3	12	4,648	4,286
Leather and leather products	60	14	12	11	23	10,190	9,131
Stone, clay, and glass products	151	69	35	12	35	12,078	10,783
Primary metal industries	239	88	65	32	54	31,615	28,206
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)	377	160	80	25	112	40,510	35,699
Machinery (except electrical)	462	191	89	55	127	60,641	54,573
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies	269	112	58	32	67	96,670	84,927
Transportation equipment	289	96	82	35	76	65,783	57,698
Aircraft and parts	126	30	36	17	43	36,532	32,577
Ship and boat building and repairing	40	26	5	5	4	7,991	6,538
Automotive and other transportation equipment	123	40	41	13	29	21,260	18,583
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments	53	21	14	7	11	5,737	5,301
Miscellaneous manufacturing	184	82	36	13	53	15,817	14,070
Fisheries	1	1	0	0	0	1,350	956
Mining	99	40	23	9	27	11,309	9,832
Metal mining	34	10	14	6	4	6,463	5,688
Coal mining	1	1	0	0	0	257	131
Crude petroleum and natural gas production	25	9	3	0	13	1,497	1,221
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying	39	20	6	3	10	3,092	2,792
Construction	108	74	6	6	22	9,494	6,036
Wholesale trade	446	228	68	27	123	20,230	15,395
Retail trade	583	295	57	17	214	32,014	26,145
Finance, insurance, and real estate	16	10	1	0	5	1,392	1,274
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities	507	251	67	41	148	43,048	36,928
Highway passenger transportation	36	15	2	7	12	2,550	2,281
Highway freight transportation	133	66	6	14	47	3,810	3,368
Water transportation	32	10	8	5	9	1,688	1,509
Warehousing and storage	71	36	9	6	20	3,078	2,625
Other transportation	14	7	3	0	4	838	787
Communication	113	58	21	6	28	19,404	15,728
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services	108	59	18	3	28	11,680	10,630
Services	161	86	16	20	39	6,909	5,686

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1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1945.

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p. 123. Eight columns: stub plus Total / A.F.L. affiliates / C.I.O. affiliates / Unaffiliated unions / In which no representative was chosen (these five under the spanner "Number of elections"), then Eligible voters and Valid votes cast. Every column reconciles internally as printed: the five industry-division rows (Manufacturing, Fisheries, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance, Transportation/communication, Services) sum to the Total line, the manufacturing detail lines sum to the Manufacturing line, and the indented detail under Transportation equipment, Mining and Transportation/communication sums to its group line, in all seven numeric columns. No misprints detected. The scan is a low-contrast 1-bit image in which fine punctuation often drops out: the colon after "Source" and the periods in "U. S." in the footnote are faint, and I have rendered them as the standard printed form; likewise the periods in the headings "A. F. L." and "C. I. O." are partly broken but legible. In the "Aircraft and parts" row label a small stray mark follows "parts" before the leader dots; I read it as a leader-dot/scan artifact rather than a footnote marker. The table ends with the "Services" row at the foot of the page; no "Continued" line is present, and the body appears complete within the crop.

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Source page 123 of NLRB FY1953 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1953, p. 123.

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.