NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1938 › Disposition of complaint cases of A. F. of L. unions on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938
Disposition of complaint cases of A. F. of L. unions on docket during the fiscal year ending 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 | 572 | 18.1 | 90,357 | 30.3 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 2,587 | 81.9 | 208,108 | 69.7 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 3,159 | 100.0 | 298,465 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before issuance of complaint: | ||||||
| By settlement | 1,190 | 52.0 | 37.7 | 81,017 | 51.0 | 27.1 |
| By dismissal | 390 | 17.1 | 12.3 | 17,877 | 11.3 | 6.0 |
| By withdrawal | 557 | 24.4 | 17.6 | 41,510 | 26.2 | 13.9 |
| By transfer to other agencies | 46 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 4,329 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Total cases closed before issuance of complaint | 2,183 | 95.5 | 69.1 | 144,733 | 91.2 | 48.5 |
| Cases closed after issuance of complaint: | ||||||
| By settlement before hearing | 31 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 2,152 | 1.4 | .7 |
| By settlement after hearing | 24 | 1.1 | .8 | 1,884 | 1.2 | .6 |
| By dismissal before issuance of Board decision | 3 | .1 | .1 | 147 | .1 | .1 |
| By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision | 18 | .8 | .6 | 6,063 | 3.8 | 2.1 |
| By intermediate report finding no violation | ||||||
| By compliance with intermediate report | 8 | .3 | .2 | 1,377 | .9 | .5 |
| By dismissal by Board decision | 2 | .1 | .1 | 65 | ||
| By compliance with Board decision | 17 | .7 | .5 | 2,198 | 1.4 | .7 |
| Total cases closed after issuance of complaint | 103 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 13,886 | 8.8 | 4.7 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1937 to June 30, 1938 | 2,286 | 100.0 | 72.4 | 158,619 | 100.0 | 53.2 |
| Cases pending June 30, 1938: | ||||||
| Before hearing | 579 | 18.3 | 73,379 | 24.5 | ||
| After hearing: | ||||||
| Awaiting intermediate report | 96 | 3.0 | 28,932 | 9.7 | ||
| Awaiting decision | 121 | 3.9 | 12,529 | 4.2 | ||
| Awaiting compliance with cease and desist orders | 77 | 2.4 | 25,006 | 8.4 | ||
| Total cases pending June 30, 1938 | 873 | 27.6 | 139,846 | 46.8 | ||
- 1 Less than 0.05 percent.
0 of 44 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 41. Seven columns (stub plus six). "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels, so each is repeated in both; "Percentage of—" is a spanner over the two columns to its right in each of the two percentage blocks. No stub heading is printed, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty. In the row "By dismissal by Board decision" the last two columns hold a parenthesized raised 1 as the entire cell value (a footnote reference used in place of a percentage, keyed to footnote 1, "Less than 0.05 percent"); these are transcribed as (^1), the caret marking the raised digit. The row "By intermediate report finding no violation" carries dash rules in all six value columns, transcribed as empty cells. Columns 2 and 5 ("Total cases closed" percentages) are dash rules for the docket, total-docket and pending rows; those are likewise empty. All printed totals and percentages reconcile with their components (e.g. 2,183 + 103 = 2,286; 144,733 + 13,886 = 158,619; 2,286 + 873 = 3,159; 158,619 + 139,846 = 298,465), so no misprints are suspected. The printed label of the "Total cases closed July 1, 1937 to June 30, 1938" row has no comma after 1937, unlike the earlier "Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938" row; both are transcribed as printed. Percentage values printed without a leading zero (.7, .8, .1) are kept as printed.
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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.