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Disposition of all charges and petitions of Congress of Industrial Organizations unions on docket July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939

printed as Table 3 · source page 32 · nlrb1939_p0032_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, 19382,12342.2967,21561.5
Cases received July 1, 1938 to July 1, 19392,90257.8606,20638.5
Total cases on docket5,025100.01,573,421100.0
Cases closed before formal action:
By settlement1,33544.526.6169,52828.610.8
By dismissal2337.84.627,8554.71.8
By withdrawal81927.316.3210,42835.513.4
Otherwise16.5.39,3931.6.6
Total cases closed before formal action2,40380.147.8417,20470.426.6
Cases closed after formal action:
By settlement before hearing24.8.55,8941.0.4
By settlement after hearing321.1.612,0832.0.8
By dismissal before hearing9.3.25,249.9.3
By dismissal after hearing17.6.32,283.4.1
By withdrawal before hearing22.7.42,544.4.2
By withdrawal after hearing26.8.510,1981.7.7
By intermediate report finding no violation5.2.1263
By compliance with intermediate report14.5.32,206.4.1
By issuance of decisions and orders:
Certification2458.14.998,09716.56.2
Compliance1093.62.221,0723.61.3
Dismissal of complaint or petition953.21.916,0852.71.0
Total cases closed after formal action59819.911.9175,97429.611.1
Total cases closed July 1, 1938 to June 30, 19393,001100.0593,178100.0
Cases pending June 30, 19392,02440.3980,24362.3

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  1. 1 Less than 0.05 percent.

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Reader’s notes

p. 32. Seven columns: stub, "Number of cases", two percentage columns, "Number of workers involved", two more percentage columns. "Percentage of—" is a spanner printed twice (over columns 2-3 and over columns 5-6) and is repeated in each column it spans; "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings repeated in both heading levels. The stub column has no printed heading (only stray specks of scanner noise), so its heading cells are empty. In the row "By intermediate report finding no violation", the last two cells hold a parenthesised raised footnote reference instead of a value; I transcribed them as (^1), pointing to footnote 1 ("Less than 0.05 percent."). Scanner artefacts, resolved by context and by arithmetic: several digit-grouping commas print as periods ("1.335", "3.001", "21.072", "16.085", "2, 123") and are given as commas; "S19" in the "By withdrawal" row and "59S" in the "Total cases closed after formal action" row are 819 and 598; "l, 573, 421" is 1,573,421. All of these are confirmed by the column sums. Every printed total is internally consistent: 2,123+2,902=5,025; 967,215+606,206=1,573,421; the four before-formal-action rows sum to 2,403 cases and 417,204 workers; the eleven after-formal-action rows sum to 598 cases and 175,974 workers; 2,403+598=3,001 and 417,204+175,974=593,178; 5,025−3,001=2,024 and 1,573,421−593,178=980,243. No misprints detected. Cells printed as a row of leader/dash rule (the "percentage of total cases closed" column on the pending/received/docket rows, and the two "on docket" percentage columns on the grand-total-closed row) are transcribed as empty.

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Source page 32 of NLRB FY1939 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1939, p. 32.

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.