NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1956 › Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1956
| 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 | AFL-CIO affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | In which no representative was chosen | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast |
| Total | 4,946 | 986 | 486 | 1,430 | 328 | 1,716 | 462,712 | 414,568 |
| Manufacturing | 3,457 | 658 | 421 | 975 | 248 | 1,155 | 394,228 | 354,401 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 24 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6,242 | 5,962 |
| Food and kindred products | 448 | 98 | 30 | 147 | 19 | 154 | 33,758 | 29,878 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2,420 | 2,230 |
| Textile mill products | 79 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 37 | 23,134 | 21,176 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material | 61 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 40 | 11,699 | 10,366 |
| Lumber and wood products | 198 | 37 | 30 | 52 | 8 | 71 | 15,425 | 14,062 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 137 | 22 | 17 | 43 | 6 | 49 | 12,296 | 11,336 |
| Paper and allied products | 171 | 46 | 13 | 51 | 6 | 55 | 20,256 | 17,994 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 141 | 28 | 13 | 46 | 6 | 48 | 6,121 | 5,721 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 233 | 60 | 29 | 54 | 20 | 70 | 24,389 | 22,207 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 73 | 12 | 16 | 24 | 9 | 12 | 9,902 | 9,040 |
| Rubber products | 53 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 7,502 | 6,947 |
| Leather and leather products | 72 | 12 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 27 | 21,216 | 19,486 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 117 | 25 | 14 | 45 | 7 | 26 | 12,060 | 11,028 |
| Primary metal industries | 218 | 39 | 35 | 47 | 28 | 69 | 23,894 | 21,750 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 391 | 69 | 58 | 108 | 28 | 128 | 34,347 | 31,245 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 429 | 73 | 58 | 119 | 27 | 152 | 56,858 | 47,540 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 203 | 33 | 21 | 47 | 27 | 75 | 31,945 | 28,945 |
| Aircraft and parts | 72 | 16 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 28 | 11,041 | 10,354 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 19 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1,606 | 1,396 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 119 | 20 | 24 | 35 | 12 | 28 | 8,335 | 7,603 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 32 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 6,441 | 5,947 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 155 | 22 | 21 | 50 | 12 | 50 | 13,341 | 12,188 |
| Fisheries | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 94 |
| Mining | 59 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 23 | 6,987 | 6,363 |
| Metal mining | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3,395 | 2,979 |
| Coal mining | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 295 | 282 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 34 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 3,297 | 3,102 |
| Construction | 46 | 14 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 6,716 | 4,911 |
| Wholesale trade | 472 | 96 | 23 | 148 | 19 | 186 | 16,066 | 14,542 |
| Retail trade | 470 | 114 | 8 | 137 | 20 | 191 | 18,012 | 15,992 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 835 | 779 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 355 | 79 | 14 | 113 | 28 | 121 | 16,754 | 14,894 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 418 | 397 |
| Highway freight transportation | 129 | 38 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 48 | 3,943 | 3,400 |
| Water transportation | 28 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 1,695 | 1,545 |
| Warehousing and storage | 67 | 13 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 22 | 1,323 | 1,251 |
| Other transportation | 14 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 751 | 701 |
| Communication | 69 | 16 | 4 | 33 | 1 | 15 | 2,182 | 1,722 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 40 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 20 | 6,442 | 5,878 |
| Services | 69 | 16 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 21 | 2,987 | 2,592 |
329 of 329 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
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.
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.