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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1968

printed as Table 16 · source pages 247–248 · nlrb1968_p0247_t0

Stitched from pp. 247–248.

Industrial groupTotal electionsNumber of elections in which representation rights were won by unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castValid votes cast for unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Industrial groupTotal electionsTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Ordnance and accessories25118201144,8054,4061,7271,53211018672,679517
Food and kindred products53530914612727922639,62935,13420,91812,0626,0451,6331,17814,21622,111
Tobacco manufacturers5431001194182736940010988
Textile mill products7035237233521,07119,3849,4518,363248957459,9335,945
Apparel and other finished products, made from fabric and similar materials643428321309,7168,8614,0923,794107133584,7694,239
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)177997917217812,22311,0406,0924,9001,017127484,9485,690
Furniture and fixtures10956351533539,8318,9524,8043,628688393954,1485,289
Paper and allied products1881168027817220,89018,98212,7919,1672,5548921786,19114,674
Printing, publishing, and allied industries3051781531211212712,73411,5076,4755,3035095091545,0326,505
Chemicals and allied products266152805016611422,36020,73812,8366,8182,8061,6351,5777,90212,330
Products of petroleum and coal743923916355,3444,9123,1531,4874051441,1171,7593,590
Rubber and plastic products1851016520978419,67617,69410,2766,8811,8695201,0067,41810,744
Leather and leather products431610411278,0507,0823,1362,576205712843,9462,239
Stone, clay, and glass products21013275421237810,7309,8306,1204,1211,2954492553,7106,395
Primary metal industries2731631262110611025,22322,56012,0508,9725931,77571010,51010,224
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)476263200459921336,14232,73419,60915,2302,2061,31685713,12519,834
Machinery (except electrical)46625919731191220751,26946,67726,75418,3402,4032,6733,33819,92324,683
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies27912689259315346,06641,51020,53516,6642,1371,21452020,97517,200
Aircraft and parts6335209512818,19316,67411,4126,7175463,9971525,26210,588
Ship and boat building and repairing25158601102,9242,5211,872998515263336492,431
Miscellaneous transportation equipment19611274211168423,60721,45413,7959,2388381,0822,6377,65914,983
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments6835236333310,8579,8496,2424,0042151631,8603,6075,432
Miscellaneous manufacturing107604313404711,10710,2525,6834,541812303274,5695,080
Manufacturing4,2092,3501,588513164851,859422,641382,935219,896155,40528,12719,16817,196163,039210,811
Metal mining1911621283,3212,9592,0551,167137716809041,958
Coal mining25191310562,9102,7241,178183228131601,546890
Crude petroleum and natural gas production321817100142,1191,453714707700739793
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying30157521151,0569665693328213223397645
Mining106633111138439,4068,1024,5162,3892481,0168633,5864,286
Construction190117929106739,5527,6674,5073,3032343126583,1605,480
Wholesale trade69738612524015631115,93314,5707,8383,3613,8543852386,7328,286
Retail trade1,162647422166164351534,48329,49215,59011,0283,1263251,11113,90215,775
Finance, insurance, and real estate11686741110304,1773,7112,2281,920305211,4832,400
Local passenger transportation382012800182,7002,1008995253280461,201876
Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services42224934205731739,6308,5004,7898233,715157943,7115,540
Water transportation33241435291,9271,6781,392537407593892861,656
Other transportation34149500202,1231,8727306011100191,142296
Communications148101916314719,22117,69815,22613,8261,153891582,47217,887
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services12379542014446,1075,6423,6152,3832751947632,0273,352
Transportation, communication, and other utilities798487214247161031141,70837,49026,65118,6955,9884991,46910,83929,607
Hotels and other lodging places703730412335,1394,0122,1841,76326087741,8282,029
Personal services4427121410171,5401,3667723133847505941,068
Automobile repairs, garages, and other miscellaneous repair services13876462622622,6112,3711,25981137050281,1121,416
Motion pictures and other amusement and recreation services29189621112,7561,8191,314856182582185052,045
Medical and other health services1088882006205,0174,0982,9272,789101371,1714,039
Education services3110002171141754629006649
Museums, art galleries, and botanical and zoological gardens110010014760060114
Nonprofit membership organizations333000042332525000842
Miscellaneous services1831088515627510,9748,9584,5173,618443428284,4414,706
Services57935926865131322028,26422,80513,07910,2211,6697044859,72615,408
Total, all industrial groups7,8574,4952,8141,2622481713,362566,164506,772294,305206,32243,55122,41122,021212,467292,053

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

774 of 774 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 247. 17 columns: stub, "Total elections", the five "won by unions" columns, "no representative chosen", "employees eligible", "total valid votes cast", the five "valid votes cast for unions" columns, "Total votes for no union", and "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The crop is cut off after the "Manufacturing" subtotal line — the table continues on the following page(s) with the nonmanufacturing industry groups and a grand total, which are not on this image. The marker "1" on the stub heading "Industrial group" has no footnote text printed within this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Doubtful/odd cells: - "Textile mill products", column "Valid votes cast for unions / AFL-CIO unions": the scan shows a stray ink dot immediately before the figure (". 8, 363"). I read it as a speck, not a decimal point or a marker, and transcribed 8,363; the row adds (8,363+248+95+745 = 9,451, the printed row total), confirming the reading. - "Printing, publishing, and allied industries": the "Teamsters" and "Other national unions" cells under "Valid votes cast for unions" both read 509. This is not a duplication error on my part — the four components sum to the printed total 6,475. Arithmetic cross-checks: every data row and the "Manufacturing" line is internally consistent (union components sum to each "Total"; won + no-representative = total elections; votes for unions + votes for no union = total valid votes cast), and the column sums of all 23 industry rows reproduce the printed "Manufacturing" figures in every numeric column. No misprints detected.

p. 248. This crop is the continuation of a table begun on the preceding page: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 columns (stub plus 16 numeric columns), counted from the column rules and confirmed row by row. The crop also begins mid-table: the rows above "Metal mining" (and any section label introducing the mining group) fall on the previous page. Arithmetic checks all reconcile as transcribed, which cross-validates the faint cells. In particular: columns 2+7 = column 1 and columns 3+4+5+6 = column 2 on every data row; columns 11+12+13+14 = column 10 and columns 10+15 = column 9; and the "Mining", "Transportation, communication, and other utilities", "Services" and "Total, all industrial groups" lines equal the sums of their member rows in every column. Doubtful glyphs, all resolved by those checks: "Other transportation" last column reads 296 (the scan degrades the 6); "Water transportation" column 14 is printed with a space as "38 9" and is 389; "Medical and other health services" column 12 is a single digit 1; "Education services" last column is 49 and "Museums, art galleries, and botanical and zoological gardens" last column is 14, both confirmed by the Services subtotal of 15,408. In the footnote, the punctuation after "Source" is broken in the scan; it is rendered here as a colon, which is this report's usual form. A small stray ink mark sits in the right margin beside the "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" row; it is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker, and no footnote markers appear on any value, label or heading in this crop.

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Source page 247 of NLRB FY1968 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1968, p. 247.
Source page 248 of NLRB FY1968 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1968, p. 248.

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.