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Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1957
| 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-CIO affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | In which no representative was chosen | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast |
| Total | 4,729 | 2,619 | 323 | 1,787 | 458,904 | 410,619 |
| Manufacturing | 3,282 | 1,781 | 234 | 1,267 | 357,471 | 322,794 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1,746 | 1,604 |
| Food and kindred products | 443 | 250 | 30 | 163 | 28,454 | 25,409 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2,074 | 1,884 | |
| Textile mill products | 73 | 27 | 7 | 39 | 20,042 | 18,477 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar material | 57 | 30 | 2 | 25 | 7,572 | 6,967 |
| Lumber and wood products | 140 | 71 | 6 | 63 | 9,584 | 8,792 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 125 | 57 | 5 | 63 | 12,807 | 12,016 |
| Paper and allied products | 138 | 80 | 9 | 49 | 16,848 | 15,530 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 161 | 106 | 9 | 46 | 5,770 | 5,312 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 233 | 145 | 16 | 72 | 18,749 | 17,194 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 80 | 42 | 14 | 24 | 11,338 | 9,591 |
| Rubber products | 61 | 30 | 3 | 28 | 7,496 | 6,992 |
| Leather and leather products | 56 | 24 | 2 | 30 | 9,414 | 8,717 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 136 | 83 | 5 | 48 | 12,148 | 10,969 |
| Primary metal industries | 213 | 105 | 29 | 79 | 27,927 | 25,225 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 387 | 222 | 20 | 145 | 27,750 | 25,161 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 365 | 188 | 35 | 142 | 39,459 | 36,496 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 186 | 91 | 14 | 81 | 37,629 | 31,730 |
| Aircraft and parts | 62 | 30 | 5 | 27 | 13,277 | 11,672 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 25 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 11,256 | 10,138 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 118 | 72 | 6 | 40 | 13,941 | 12,563 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 44 | 21 | 1 | 22 | 7,142 | 6,668 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 153 | 83 | 12 | 58 | 15,048 | 13,687 |
| Fisheries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mining | 65 | 39 | 7 | 19 | 11,623 | 9,518 |
| Metal mining | 28 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 8,763 | 6,864 |
| Coal mining | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 116 | 108 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 601 | 590 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 28 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 2,143 | 1,956 |
| Construction | 55 | 33 | 3 | 19 | 2,822 | 2,369 |
| Wholesale trade | 446 | 253 | 26 | 167 | 13,779 | 12,181 |
| Retail trade | 412 | 246 | 9 | 157 | 24,401 | 20,460 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 23 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 1,776 | 1,614 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 361 | 203 | 33 | 125 | 43,796 | 38,830 |
| Highway passenger transportation | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3,538 | 3,255 |
| Highway freight transportation | 118 | 69 | 8 | 41 | 2,883 | 2,525 |
| Water transportation | 31 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 25,184 | 22,130 |
| Warehousing and storage | 75 | 50 | 5 | 20 | 2,209 | 2,055 |
| Other transportation | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1,931 | 1,791 |
| Communication | 60 | 31 | 4 | 25 | 4,335 | 3,640 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 44 | 24 | 1 | 19 | 3,716 | 3,434 |
| Services | 85 | 53 | 10 | 22 | 3,236 | 2,853 |
- 1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U. S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1945
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Reader’s notes
p. 190. Seven printed columns: stub, then "Number of elections" spanning Total / AFL-CIO affiliates / Unaffiliated unions / In which no representative was chosen, then Eligible voters and Valid votes cast. The "Number of elections" group rule runs across all four of those columns, with the heavier vertical rule falling before "Eligible voters". Cell notes: - "Tobacco manufacturers", Unaffiliated unions: printed as a dash rule (------), transcribed as "". - "Other transportation", Valid votes cast: the digit group separator looks like a period rather than a comma in the scan ("1.791"); transcribed as "1,791" on the assumption of a broken/ink-filled comma. - "Crude petroleum and natural gas production", Valid votes cast: a stray apostrophe-like speck sits above and left of "590"; read as a scan artifact, not a footnote marker. - "Mining", Valid votes cast: a similar stray speck precedes "9,518"; treated as an artifact. - "Construction", AFL-CIO affiliates: the leading 3 is partly broken by the scan; read as "33". Structure: "Manufacturing", "Mining", and "Transportation, communication, and other public utilities" are group totals printed above their indented component rows, each set off by rules; "Fisheries", "Construction", "Wholesale trade", "Retail trade", "Finance, insurance, and real estate", and "Services" are standalone group lines with no components. No arithmetic was checked or corrected.
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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.