NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1939 › Disposition of all charges and petitions of American Federation of Labor unions on docket July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939
Disposition of all charges and petitions of American Federation of Labor unions on docket July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939
| 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, 1938 | 1,182 | 28.3 | 210,452 | 39.8 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939 | 2,994 | 71.7 | 317,936 | 60.2 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 4,176 | 100.0 | 528,388 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement | 1,326 | 50.2 | 31.8 | 136,354 | 46.2 | 25.8 |
| By dismissal | 318 | 12.0 | 7.6 | 38,205 | 13.0 | 7.2 |
| By withdrawal | 662 | 25.0 | 15.9 | 44,897 | 15.2 | 8.6 |
| Otherwise | 15 | .6 | .3 | 1,709 | .6 | .3 |
| Total cases closed before formal action | 2,321 | 87.8 | 55.6 | 221,165 | 75.0 | 41.9 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement before hearing | 15 | .6 | .3 | 2,682 | .9 | .5 |
| By settlement after hearing | 28 | 1.1 | .7 | 11,710 | 4.0 | 2.2 |
| By dismissal before hearing | 4 | .2 | .1 | 393 | .1 | .1 |
| By dismissal after hearing | 9 | .3 | .2 | 3,394 | 1.2 | .7 |
| By withdrawal before hearing | 12 | .4 | .3 | 2,295 | .8 | .4 |
| By withdrawal after hearing | 17 | .6 | .4 | 2,186 | .7 | .4 |
| By intermediate report finding no violation | 4 | .2 | .1 | 577 | .2 | .1 |
| By compliance with intermediate report | 12 | .4 | .3 | 777 | .3 | .2 |
| By issuance of decisions and orders: | ||||||
| Certification | 79 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 18,693 | 6.3 | 3.5 |
| Compliance | 88 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 18,642 | 6.3 | 3.5 |
| Dismissal of complaint or petition | 56 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 12,395 | 4.2 | 2.3 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 324 | 12.2 | 7.7 | 73,744 | 25.0 | 13.9 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939 | 2,645 | 100.0 | 294,909 | 100.0 | 44.2 | |
| Cases pending June 30, 1939 | 1,531 | 36.7 | 233,479 | |||
- 5 Cases filed by individuals include only unfair labor practice cases. (See footnote, p. 47.) Table XIII, p. 41, shows the disposition of these cases.
0 of 44 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 31. Seven columns: stub, "Number of cases", two percentage columns, "Number of workers involved", two more percentage columns. The stub column carries no printed heading, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty; "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings spanning both levels and are repeated. The two "Percentage of—" spanner headings each cover the two columns to their right. Suspected misprint: in the row "Total cases closed July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939" the last column prints 44.2, but 294,909 of 528,388 workers is 55.8 (and the column's two component totals, 41.9 + 13.9, sum to 55.8). The printed 44.2 is exactly the share for the following row (233,479/528,388), whose last two cells are dash rules. Transcribed as printed. Cells printed as a dash rule (------) are rendered as "": the "Total cases closed"/percentage column for both opening rows, the "Total cases on docket" row and the "Cases pending June 30, 1939" row; the "Total cases on docket" percentage cell on the grand-total closed row; and the last two cells of "Cases pending June 30, 1939". Two small values in the last column read slightly high against the printed worker counts: "By dismissal after hearing" prints .7 (3,394/528,388 = .64) and "By compliance with intermediate report" prints .2 (777/528,388 = .15). Both characters are legible and are given as printed. All other figures cross-check: the four before-formal-action rows sum to 2,321 cases / 221,165 workers, the eleven after-formal-action rows to 324 / 73,744, and the two together to 2,645 / 294,909. Footnote 5 is printed below the table but no matching raised marker appears anywhere in the table or its headings, and its subject (cases filed by individuals) does not match this table of American Federation of Labor union cases; it most likely belongs to the surrounding page text. It is reproduced here because it falls inside the crop.
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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.