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Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1960

printed as Table 16 · source page 214 · nlrb1960_p0214_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-CIO affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIn which no representative was chosenEligible votersValid votes cast
Total6,3802,4001,3402,640483,964436,723
Manufacturing3,9441,6047051,635372,900339,388
Ordnance and accessories128132,7912,426
Food and kindred products62017817626645,69640,699
Tobacco manufacturers93061,9291,791
Textile mill products61217336,5196,028
Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials1046310317,9407,212
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)1798519759,1908,360
Furniture and fixtures15968236812,58711,706
Paper and allied products17969317919,56818,099
Printing, publishing, and allied industries2289058807,0806,378
Chemicals and allied products25198569728,48926,432
Products of petroleum and coal5213251410,8279,775
Rubber products12448156110,2629,363
Leather and leather products541943110,6799,749
Stone, clay, and glass products18067427112,04010,805
Primary metal industries249108449724,55222,893
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)4542146417630,87927,856
Machinery (except electrical)4011844117638,81435,660
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies2691153711753,36647,920
Transportation equipment19987288425,78923,609
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments41147205,5995,116
Miscellaneous manufacturing1195217508,3047,511
Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries6213180161
Mining602320174,6914,230
Metal mining2112272,4162,128
Coal mining171133856797
Crude petroleum and natural gas production10101512
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying2110471,4041,293
Construction1227018345,7494,665
Wholesale trade58911821126013,17412,004
Retail trade81331013237131,09827,424
Finance, insurance, and real estate25100151,6061,477
Transportation, communication, and other public utilities56515919820818,97816,980
Local passenger transportation29145102,0991,744
Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services307411401267,4836,664
Water transportation49172482,3312,211
Other transportation2376101,1771,104
Communication86477322,7612,395
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services713316223,1272,862
Services256104559735,58830,394

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  1. 1 Source. Standard Industrial Classification, Division of Statistical Standards, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Washington 1957.

242 of 242 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 214. Seven columns: stub plus four under the spanner "Number of elections" (Total; AFL-CIO affiliates and Unaffiliated unions under the sub-spanner "In which representation rights were won by—"; "In which no representative was chosen"), then "Eligible voters" and "Valid votes cast", which are tall single headings spanning all three heading levels. The table is internally consistent; every check I ran reconciles exactly, which is the main basis for the high confidence. In each row the three election columns sum to the Total column; the 21 manufacturing sub-industries sum to the Manufacturing line (3,944 / 372,900 / 339,388), the four mining sub-industries to the Mining line, and the six transportation sub-industries to the Transportation, communication, and other public utilities line, in all six columns; and the nine major groups (Manufacturing, Agriculture, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance, Transportation, Services) sum to the Total row in all six columns (6,380 / 2,400 / 1,340 / 2,640 / 483,964 / 436,723). No printed figure appears to be a misprint. Scan artifacts that do not affect the reading: the stub labels print as "quarıying" (transcribed "quarrying"), "tı ansportation" ("transportation") and "w arehousing" ("warehousing") because of broken type and the dotless-i rendering common in this scan; a stray tick precedes the 17 in the AFL-CIO affiliates cell of "Water transportation" and is ink, not a digit or a footnote marker. In the footnote, the punctuation after "Source" reads as a period but is most likely a comma in the original setting; I transcribed what is visible. Indentation is not representable in the grid: the 21 industries after "Manufacturing", the four after "Mining", and the six after "Transportation, communication, and other public utilities" are indented sub-rows of those group lines, so summing the stub column indiscriminately would double-count. The crop ends just below the footnote; a partial printer's signature line ("581932—61——15" or similar) is visible at the very bottom edge and is not part of the table. "Services" carries no sub-industry breakdown here, but since the major groups already sum to the Total row the table is complete as printed, not cut off.

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Source page 214 of NLRB FY1960 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1960, p. 214.

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.