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Disposition of all charges and petitions of American Federation of Labor unions on docket July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938

printed as Table 2 · source page 30 · nlrb1938_p0030_t0

Number of casesPercentage of—Number of workers involvedPercentage of—
Number of casesTotal cases closedTotal cases on docketNumber of workers involvedTotal number of workers involved in cases closedTotal number of workers involved in cases on docket
Cases pending June 30, 193790119.6184,24433.0
Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 19383,69280.4374,70967.0
Total cases on docket4,593100.0558,953100.0
Cases closed before formal action:
By settlement1,79352.539.0150,56343.327.0
By dismissal46313.610.132,9419.55.9
By withdrawal76522.416.770,58820.312.6
By transfer to other agencies511.51.17,3662.11.3
Total cases closed before formal action3,07290.066.9261,45875.246.8
Cases closed after formal action:
By settlement702.01.57,8282.31.4
By dismissal before issuance of Board decision12.4.33,4651.0.6
By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision521.51.110,0822.91.8
By transfer to other agencies
By intermediate report finding no violation
By compliance with intermediate report8.2.21,377.4.2
By issuance of decisions and orders:
Certification1404.13.049,78114.38.9
Compliance17.5.42,198.6.4
Dismissal of complaint or petition431.3.911,4303.32.1
Total cases closed after formal action34210.07.486,16124.815.4
Total cases closed July 1, 1937, to June 30, 19383,414100.074.3347,619100.062.2
Cases pending June 30, 19381,17925.7211,33437.8

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Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 30 of NLRB FY1938 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1938, p. 30.

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.