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Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1956

printed as Table 17 · source page 195 · nlrb1956_p0195_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 affiliatesAFL-CIO affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIn which no representative was chosenEligible votersValid votes cast
Total4,9469864861,4303281,716462,712414,568
Manufacturing3,4576584219752481,155394,228354,401
Ordnance and accessories241412256,2425,962
Food and kindred products44898301471915433,75829,878
Tobacco manufacturers12006242,4202,230
Textile mill products799101853723,13421,176
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material6144764011,69910,366
Lumber and wood products19837305287115,42514,062
Furniture and fixtures13722174364912,29611,336
Paper and allied products17146135165520,25617,994
Printing, publishing, and allied industries1412813466486,1215,721
Chemicals and allied products233602954207024,38922,207
Products of petroleum and coal731216249129,9029,040
Rubber products5387186147,5026,947
Leather and leather products7212101942721,21619,486
Stone, clay, and glass products11725144572612,06011,028
Primary metal industries218393547286923,89421,750
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)39169581082812834,34731,245
Machinery (except electrical)42973581192715256,85847,540
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies203332147277531,94528,945
Aircraft and parts721661932811,04110,354
Ship and boat building and repairing19309251,6061,396
Automotive and other transportation equipment11920243512288,3357,603
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments32849386,4415,947
Miscellaneous manufacturing155222150125013,34112,188
Fisheries50050012794
Mining5997137236,9876,363
Metal mining19641443,3952,979
Coal mining00000000
Crude petroleum and natural gas production600402295282
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying343383173,2973,102
Construction4614518186,7164,911
Wholesale trade47296231481918616,06614,542
Retail trade47011481372019118,01215,992
Finance, insurance, and real estate13011011835779
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities35579141132812116,75414,894
Highway passenger transportation821104418397
Highway freight transportation1293813012483,9433,400
Water transportation28536591,6951,545
Warehousing and storage67134226221,3231,251
Other transportation1401733751701
Communication69164331152,1821,722
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services4050141206,4425,878
Services69167205212,9872,592

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  1. 1 Source Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1945.
  2. 2 See table 1, footnote 1.
  3. 3 See table 1, footnote 2.

329 of 329 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 195. Nine columns: stub plus Total, four \"won by\" columns, \"In which no representative was chosen\", Eligible voters, Valid votes cast. The first six value columns sit under the spanner \"Number of elections\"; \"Total\" and \"In which no representative was chosen\" are tall headings spanning the second and third heading levels, and \"Eligible voters\" / \"Valid votes cast\" span all three. Arithmetic checks: every detail row's five component columns sum to its printed Total; the 23 manufacturing detail rows sum to the Manufacturing line (3,457 elections; 394,228 eligible voters; 354,401 valid votes); the mining and transportation detail rows sum to their group lines; and the nine major-group lines sum to the printed grand Total in all eight value columns. No discrepancies found. Footnote 1 text: after \"Source\" the scan shows no legible colon (likely a colon that failed to print); transcribed without one. In footnote 2 the mark between \"table 1\" and \"footnote 1\" reads as a heavy period in this scan; transcribed as a comma to match the parallel wording of footnote 3, where the comma is clear. Group rows Manufacturing, Mining, and Transportation, communication, and other public utilities are subtotal rows carrying values (not label-only section lines); their indented detail rows follow. The Coal mining row prints 0 in all eight columns.

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Source page 195 of NLRB FY1956 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1956, p. 195.

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.