NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1938 › Disposition of all charges and petitions of American Federation of Labor unions on docket July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938
| Number of cases | Percentage of— | Number of workers involved | Percentage of— | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cases | Total cases closed | Total cases on docket | Number of workers involved | Total number of workers involved in cases closed | Total number of workers involved in cases on docket | |
| Cases pending June 30, 1937 | 901 | 19.6 | 184,244 | 33.0 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 3,692 | 80.4 | 374,709 | 67.0 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 4,593 | 100.0 | 558,953 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement | 1,793 | 52.5 | 39.0 | 150,563 | 43.3 | 27.0 |
| By dismissal | 463 | 13.6 | 10.1 | 32,941 | 9.5 | 5.9 |
| By withdrawal | 765 | 22.4 | 16.7 | 70,588 | 20.3 | 12.6 |
| By transfer to other agencies | 51 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 7,366 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| Total cases closed before formal action | 3,072 | 90.0 | 66.9 | 261,458 | 75.2 | 46.8 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement | 70 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 7,828 | 2.3 | 1.4 |
| By dismissal before issuance of Board decision | 12 | .4 | .3 | 3,465 | 1.0 | .6 |
| By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision | 52 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 10,082 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
| By transfer to other agencies | ||||||
| By intermediate report finding no violation | ||||||
| By compliance with intermediate report | 8 | .2 | .2 | 1,377 | .4 | .2 |
| By issuance of decisions and orders: | ||||||
| Certification | 140 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 49,781 | 14.3 | 8.9 |
| Compliance | 17 | .5 | .4 | 2,198 | .6 | .4 |
| Dismissal of complaint or petition | 43 | 1.3 | .9 | 11,430 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 342 | 10.0 | 7.4 | 86,161 | 24.8 | 15.4 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 3,414 | 100.0 | 74.3 | 347,619 | 100.0 | 62.2 |
| Cases pending June 30, 1938 | 1,179 | 25.7 | 211,334 | 37.8 | ||
0 of 36 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 30. Seven columns: stub plus six data columns. "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall headings spanning both heading levels; the two "Percentage of—" spanners each cover the two columns to their right ("Total cases closed"/"Total cases on docket" and "Total number of workers involved in cases closed"/"Total number of workers involved in cases on docket"). The stub itself carries no printed heading, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty. The two rows "By transfer to other agencies" (under "Cases closed after formal action") and "By intermediate report finding no violation" carry only dash rules across the data columns (the "Number of cases" cell of the first is blank), so all their data cells are "". Dash rules also fill the "Total cases closed" and "Total number of workers involved in cases closed" cells of the three docket rows and of "Cases pending June 30, 1938". Percentages under 1 are printed without a leading zero (".4", ".3", ".6", ".9", ".2", ".5") and are transcribed as printed. All printed totals and percentage columns are internally consistent (e.g. 1,793+463+765+51 = 3,072; 3,072+342 = 3,414; 347,619+211,334 = 558,953), so no misprint is suspected. Faint type made a few figures slightly soft in the scan — "70,588" (By withdrawal, Number of workers involved) and "261,458" (Total cases closed before formal action, Number of workers involved) — but both are confirmed by the column sums.
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.