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Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1955

printed as Table 17 · source page 191 · nlrb1955_p0191_t0

Industrial groupNumber of electionsEligible votersValid votes cast
Industrial groupTotalIn which representation rights were won by—In which no representative was chosenEligible votersValid votes cast
Industrial groupTotalAFL affiliatesCIO affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIn which no representative was chosenEligible votersValid votes cast
Total4,2151,7218043241,366515,995453,442
Manufacturing2,9561,059680260957396,824353,793
Ordnance and accessories1163022,4422,295
Food and kindred products384175472813429,43225,222
Tobacco manufacturers300038,6018,003
Textile mill products942234112730,03326,926
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material591684318,6227,853
Lumber and wood products136622017379,9178,823
Furniture and fixtures11242238399,7588,994
Paper and allied products137623063917,90916,366
Printing, publishing, and allied industries12660149435,6355,269
Chemicals and allied products2228737168219,18817,781
Products of petroleum and coal6228141193,6903,252
Rubber products371371164,4424,091
Leather and leather products7183991510,5099,461
Stone, clay, and glass products9241247208,5107,704
Primary metal industries2067257245319,73817,804
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)306103831410628,81026,176
Machinery (except electrical)34093963311851,37346,577
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies2136353306780,03367,913
Aircraft and parts63191762118,30416,207
Ship and boat building and repairing24139021,3671,162
Automotive and other transportation equipment992631132914,97113,937
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments421286163,9373,513
Miscellaneous manufacturing11736267489,6038,464
Forestry110001414
Mining452063165,2804,807
Metal mining1764254,2183,795
Coal mining100015050
Crude petroleum and natural gas production31002104101
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying2413218908861
Construction7653171511,2067,142
Wholesale trade356179391212610,5299,525
Retail trade32017718611926,91923,448
Finance, insurance, and real estate1471062,9352,754
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities384194463011460,07750,023
Highway passenger transportation53002851804
Highway freight transportation1045434431,8891,732
Water transportation4219108535,83829,058
Warehousing and storage8342117233,2812,958
Other transportation193655860759
Communication8455103169,0537,192
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services471863208,3057,520
Services6331136132,2111,936

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

292 of 292 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 191 of NLRB FY1955 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1955, p. 191.

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.