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Industrial Distribution of Unfair Labor Practice and Representation Cases Received, Fiscal Year 1959

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Industrial group	All cases	Unfair labor practice cases					Representation cases
Industrial group	All cases	All C cases	CA	CB	CC	CD	All R cases	RC	RM	RD
Total	21,586	12,239	8,266	3,129	657	187	9,347	7,959	847	541
Manufacturing	11,342	5,749	4,398	1,151	163	37	5,593	4,760	453	380
Ordnance and accessories	23	13	7	6	0	0	10	9	0	1
Food and kindred products	1,679	793	568	182	41	2	886	772	65	49
Tobacco manufacturers	16	5	4	1	0	0	11	10	1	0
Textile mill products	335	222	174	41	7	0	113	86	22	5
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials	479	356	240	105	9	2	123	88	22	13
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)	433	196	153	32	8	3	237	206	19	12
Furniture and fixtures	451	245	196	37	12	0	206	167	19	20
Paper and allied products	376	142	119	22	1	0	234	199	23	12
Printing, publishing, and allied industries	620	308	238	65	3	2	312	262	24	26
Chemicals and allied products	724	350	304	39	7	0	374	304	33	37
Products of petroleum and coal	196	109	97	11	1	0	87	76	5	6
Rubber products	251	97	83	13	1	0	154	134	10	10
Leather and leather products	155	67	53	12	2	0	88	71	11	6
Stone, clay, and glass products	620	368	249	102	12	5	252	207	30	15
Primary metal industries	694	333	225	67	24	17	361	314	24	23
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)	1,152	547	423	112	12	0	605	536	38	31
Machinery (except electrical)	949	380	303	62	12	3	569	490	35	44
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies	931	515	397	115	2	1	416	357	24	35
Aircraft and parts	247	139	116	20	1	2	108	102	3	3
Ship and boat building and repairing	163	119	84	35	0	0	44	44	0	0
Automotive and other transportation equipment	369	224	174	46	4	0	145	121	9	15
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments	158	66	58	6	2	0	92	62	20	10
Miscellaneous manufacturing	321	155	133	20	2	0	166	143	16	7
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries	32	19	14	5	0	0	13	12	1	0
Mining	480	390	156	143	90	1	90	74	5	11
Metal mining	54	20	15	2	2	1	34	27	0	7
Coal mining	334	317	90	141	86	0	17	15	1	1
Crude petroleum and natural gas production	12	5	5	0	0	0	7	4	1	2
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying	80	48	46	0	2	0	32	28	3	1
Construction	2,356	2,118	904	893	205	116	238	210	24	4
Wholesale trade	1,289	493	380	78	30	5	796	651	100	45
Retail trade	2,015	920	777	89	46	8	1,095	906	144	45
Finance, insurance, and real estate	84	26	24	2	0	0	58	53	3	2
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities	2,860	1,890	1,189	587	101	13	970	851	81	38
Local passenger transportation	282	152	104	47	1	0	130	127	2	1
Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services	1,620	1,125	743	309	63	10	495	425	49	21
Water transportation	518	434	221	183	29	1	84	75	9	0
Other transportation	58	24	11	8	4	1	34	30	3	1
Communications	220	86	60	26	0	0	134	116	8	10
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services	162	69	50	14	4	1	93	78	10	5
Services	1,128	634	424	181	22	7	494	442	36	16

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1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington, 1957.
2 See table 1, footnote 1, for definitions of types of cases

393 of 393 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 176. 11 columns: stub, "All cases", five unfair-labor-practice columns, four representation columns. The stub heading "Industrial group^1" and the tall heading "All cases" span both heading levels and are repeated in each. Typesetting/scan issues, all resolved in favor of the arithmetically consistent reading: several thousands commas print as periods or as blank gaps ("2.015" for Retail trade All cases, "2.860" and "1.890" for the Transportation row, "1 620" and "1 125" for Motor freight); these are transcribed with commas. Loose ink speckles sit just left of a few figures and are not digits or markers — Mining/RC (74), Motor freight/RC (425), Local passenger transportation/RC (127), Services/RD (16); Services/RD is the least clean but reads 16. Every row and panel total cross-checks: each row's All cases = All C + All R, All C = CA+CB+CC+CD, All R = RC+RM+RD; the Mining, Transportation and Manufacturing subgroup columns sum to their group lines; and the nine major group lines sum to the printed Total of 21,586 in all ten numeric columns. No misprints found. Footnote 1 punctuation is partly broken in the scan (the colon after "Source" and the periods in "U.S." are faint or dropped); rendered here with conventional punctuation. Footnote 2's "table 1" is printed in a face where the digit 1 resembles a capital I. Footnote 2 ends without a period, as printed.

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Source page 176 of NLRB FY1959 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1959, p. 176.

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.