NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1955 › Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1955
| 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 | AFL affiliates | CIO affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | In which no representative was chosen | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast |
| Total | 4,215 | 1,721 | 804 | 324 | 1,366 | 515,995 | 453,442 |
| Manufacturing | 2,956 | 1,059 | 680 | 260 | 957 | 396,824 | 353,793 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2,442 | 2,295 |
| Food and kindred products | 384 | 175 | 47 | 28 | 134 | 29,432 | 25,222 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8,601 | 8,003 |
| Textile mill products | 94 | 22 | 34 | 11 | 27 | 30,033 | 26,926 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material | 59 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 31 | 8,622 | 7,853 |
| Lumber and wood products | 136 | 62 | 20 | 17 | 37 | 9,917 | 8,823 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 112 | 42 | 23 | 8 | 39 | 9,758 | 8,994 |
| Paper and allied products | 137 | 62 | 30 | 6 | 39 | 17,909 | 16,366 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 126 | 60 | 14 | 9 | 43 | 5,635 | 5,269 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 222 | 87 | 37 | 16 | 82 | 19,188 | 17,781 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 62 | 28 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 3,690 | 3,252 |
| Rubber products | 37 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 4,442 | 4,091 |
| Leather and leather products | 71 | 8 | 39 | 9 | 15 | 10,509 | 9,461 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 92 | 41 | 24 | 7 | 20 | 8,510 | 7,704 |
| Primary metal industries | 206 | 72 | 57 | 24 | 53 | 19,738 | 17,804 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 306 | 103 | 83 | 14 | 106 | 28,810 | 26,176 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 340 | 93 | 96 | 33 | 118 | 51,373 | 46,577 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 213 | 63 | 53 | 30 | 67 | 80,033 | 67,913 |
| Aircraft and parts | 63 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 21 | 18,304 | 16,207 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 24 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1,367 | 1,162 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 99 | 26 | 31 | 13 | 29 | 14,971 | 13,937 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 42 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 3,937 | 3,513 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 117 | 36 | 26 | 7 | 48 | 9,603 | 8,464 |
| Forestry | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Mining | 45 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 5,280 | 4,807 |
| Metal mining | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4,218 | 3,795 |
| Coal mining | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 104 | 101 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 24 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 908 | 861 |
| Construction | 76 | 53 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 11,206 | 7,142 |
| Wholesale trade | 356 | 179 | 39 | 12 | 126 | 10,529 | 9,525 |
| Retail trade | 320 | 177 | 18 | 6 | 119 | 26,919 | 23,448 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2,935 | 2,754 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 384 | 194 | 46 | 30 | 114 | 60,077 | 50,023 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 851 | 804 |
| Highway freight transportation | 104 | 54 | 3 | 4 | 43 | 1,889 | 1,732 |
| Water transportation | 42 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 35,838 | 29,058 |
| Warehousing and storage | 83 | 42 | 11 | 7 | 23 | 3,281 | 2,958 |
| Other transportation | 19 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 860 | 759 |
| Communication | 84 | 55 | 10 | 3 | 16 | 9,053 | 7,192 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 47 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 8,305 | 7,520 |
| Services | 63 | 31 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 2,211 | 1,936 |
292 of 292 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 191. Eight columns: stub, then Total / AFL affiliates / CIO affiliates / Unaffiliated unions / "In which no representative was chosen" (these five sit under the spanner "Number of elections"), then Eligible voters and Valid votes cast, which stand outside that spanner. The two union-affiliation headings are set letterspaced in the original ("A F L", "C I O"); I have closed the letterspacing to "AFL affiliates" and "CIO affiliates". Arithmetic cross-checks all pass: every section detail block sums to its section line, and the nine section lines (Manufacturing, Forestry, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance, Transportation, Services) sum to the printed Total row in all seven value columns. No misprints detected. In the footnote, the punctuation after "Source" and after "U" did not print cleanly in the scan (both look like faint or dropped periods); I transcribed what is legible, so the footnote may be intended as "Source: ... U. S. Bureau ...". A stray ink speck sits above the "U". A small stray mark appears in the stub margin near the "Industrial group" heading and another between the "Automotive and other transportation equipment" and "Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments" rows; both are scan artifacts, not footnote markers.
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.